from Purple and Dissonance I don’t want to hear it. Don’t want to write it, nor read it. […]
Category Archive: Essays
“Unwonted, shimmering, ruthless, the tiger poses man a question more intractable than the ancient enigma of the sphinx, […]
The poetical imagination is one thing, and the biblical imagination, inevitably, something else; side by side, they struggle […]
To Marina Vishmidt, after Sean Bonney The dead. They have a plan. And their plan is simple. It […]
These two words represent something I knew once, for half a second, a brief revelation which I owe […]
Palermo Catacombs #7 (Two Girls Together) Sisters, probably, hopefully—uncomfortably morbid if friends, not that the baseline morbidity of […]
Twenty years later. Twenty years later I’m on my way to Bristol. Or rather, on my way to […]
1. Irony In a description of this sort we have to emphasise that its content is, in fact, […]
One always writes with a view to being read. This word I am writing is intended for a […]
What is at hand, what surrounds, what is in-between, and close by we find the Aesopic Body as […]
