Recent content by poetix

Nowadays of course what every fibre of our being is teeming with is microplastics

Alan Garner's big on sentient landscape - the background conceit of Thursbitch is that the titular valley itself is kind of haunted: http://alangarner.atspace.org/votd.html

Verbal sparring, as described upthread, is also pretty homosexual. Ooh, get her, etc.

Who was the most heterosexual mathematician? I'm guessing Galois, who actually managed to get himself killed in a duel over a woman. Then again, duelling is pretty homosexual, so who's to say.

Make it a snow-globe, shakeable from stasis into a gelid flurry settling on alpine starkness, moulded plastic firs deep-set in dandruff, pert within their sphere. Wobble detection trips a jingle, one of those old-time tunes you’re just supposed to know - The Cuckoo Waltz, for sake of argument...

If I could teleport myself to Stoke Newington for an hour then teleport myself home again I'd go, but alas I have not reached that level of astral prowess

eh, they were putting it about that Turner was heir to a multi-million textile fortune, I doubt that bit was really a surprise

Statement from Miller on his defeat/victory: https://cryptogram.substack.com/p/result-against-luke-turner-in-harassment

It's a wonderful piece of prose, that judgement. Icy understatement at every turn.

Grateful for this autumn rain, suffusing dampness, the season's gathering itself lately in; wet grass unmowed, tufting around a plastic children's slide, a garish rocker. I put the bins out last thing before bed. Nature gets on with things, its secret ministries as Coleridge said a slow work of...

Fun fact, I have a recording of myself reading _The Gruffalo_ to my daughter over the beat from the Burroughs/Disposable Heroes _Spare Ass Annie_

Grim (I mean serious content warning-level grim) in places, but well worth your time is Emma Seaber's thesis on anorexic life-writing as occult practice - tl;dr how do you externalise and manage chaotic and "ugly" (socially unavowable) emotional and physical extremity? How can writing itself...

Back on it, this time doing alt-rock of the early 90s

Bored, are we