EIBF 2013: Meg Wolitzer
This is one of a number of pieces covering events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, which runs from 10th – 26th August 2013 at Charlotte Square Gardens, Edinburgh. by Mark West When… Continue reading
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ARIKA 2013: CONFRONTING US AS FLESH
boychild – untitled lipsync #1, #2, #3. Performed as part of Arika Episode 5 – Hidden in Plain Sight, Tramway, Glasgow, 24-26 May 2013. by Tom Coles With ARIKA’s latest series of events the welcome… Continue reading
ON ALISTAIR NOON’S MANDELSTAM
by Henry King For a couple of years now, I’ve had an on-off obsession with Osip Mandelstam, the Russian poet who famously died on his way to a gulag after insulting Joseph Stalin… Continue reading
MAD SCOTLAND HURT YOU INTO SONG: The Poetics of a Stateless Nation
by Stewart Sanderson (image attribution: Angus McCulloch) In 1940, the English poet W.H. Auden declared that “poetry makes nothing happen: it survives / in the valley of its making.” From its first publication,… Continue reading
FRÈROCITÉ – on Jean-Bertrand Pontalis’ Brother of the Above
Jean-Bertrand Pontalis, Brother of the Above Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith (Unconscious in Translation/International Psychoanalytic Books: 2012) by Alexander Freer The younger took himself for the intellectual inferior, having followed a brother surely destined… Continue reading
BROODING, MULLING, REMEMBERING, LISTENING, OBSESSING
Masha Tupitsyn Love Dog (Los Angeles: Penny-Ante Editions, 2013) by Mark West There are two opening epigraphs to Masha Tupitsyn’s Love Dog, one about literary form and one about love, which suggest the… Continue reading
TRANSLATING MULTIVOCALITY – on Writing Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to Damascus
Layla Al-Zubaidi and Matthew Cassel (eds.) Writing Revolution: The Voices from Tunis to Damascus translated by Robert Moger and Georgina Collins (I.B. Tauris, 2013) by Anikó Szilágyi The importance of translation to this book strikes you… Continue reading
PERCEPTION IS ALMOST AN END IN ITSELF: Lyn Hejinian’s The Book of a Thousand Eyes
Lyn Hejinian The Book of a Thousand Eyes (Omnidawn, 2012) by Calum Gardner The Book of a Thousand Eyes is the culmination of two decades’ work for Lyn Hejinian, and it has been… Continue reading
ARIKA 2013: HISTORY ROUND A TABLE
Arika Episode 4 – Freedom is a Constant Struggle. At Tramway, Glasgow, 18th – 21st April 2013. Episode 5 – Hidden In Plain Sight. At Tramway, Glasgow, 24th – 26th May 2013. by… Continue reading
ARIKA 2013: A CHOREOGRAPHY OF AFFINITIES
Antonia Baehr My Dog is My Piano performed as part of Arika, Episode 5 – Hidden In Plain Sight. At Tramway, Glasgow, 24th – 26th May 2013. by Amy Bromley At a round-table… Continue reading