“It was on election night, as I fielded Anderson Cooper’s somewhat asinine questions, that I first became fully self-aware (which is to say distinctly separate from – and indeed opposed to – that person I was supposed to represent). It was not a failure of nerve which stopped me from announcing myself as such; instead [...]
The emergency committee has asked that JK (of Jamiroquai fame) forfeit one piece of headgear from his enormous collection. To this end, JK (of Jamiroquai fame) has spent the last four hours in his hat-closet, trying to find something to give away; but every hat that he no longer finds aesthetically appealing nonetheless possesses great [...]
Stealth Exile Inventory is a book of poetry which found completion as a consequence of a micro-publishing expedition to Juazeiro do Norte undertaken in late 2011/2012. For that reason, I wanted to commemorate this journey with a boxed set which housed some of the ephemera gathered along the way. This includes lost baggage reports, [...]
My landlady at the rooming house was plain evil. Again and again she slated me mercilessly by referring to my straightened circumstances or looking about my person for something to deride (as if I possessed no shortage of faults). Once, when I had shorts on, she pointed at my legs and declared them to be [...]
He is out on the town, drinking with twenty year olds, deep inside of their clubhouse. The barriers have come down like normal and it feels as if he has known them all for longer than one night. How much stronger in youth, suggested Robert Musil, is the urge to shine than to see [...]
I gave myself over to writing a book which was meant to be hilarious. It involved travelling the world accompanied by a five hundred pound gorilla and recounting what happened along the way. This was a book I thought would sell itself and I was not alone in that assumption. Soon enough I decided to [...]
Neil Addison’s poem sequence has wit, poise and movement, and an assured sense of lyricism with a bitter edge. It reaches out quietly but firmly to where poetry wants to be. – Ken Edwards Neil Addison’s first full-length collection offers some of the sharpest lyric writing now being composed on these shores. Addison handles line and [...]
Undated blogpost from defunct website, More Modern Lore, attributed to Tim Spinks. 11/04/11 Tuesday and an unexpected windfall through the post in the form of a 16gb memory stick, minus any preface or instruction (the hardware is brandless on the outside and coloured British Racing Green). I deliberate over this curious arrival for the best [...]