Excellent news! I have been given the green light by the V&A to have a series of readings at their beautiful Reading Rooms, pictured above. They will start in May (date undecided) and focus around one independent publisher/anthology each month. I will co-host with the editors, who will choose the line-up and I will TRY [...]
Archive for March, 2011
SelectedPoems at the V&A Reading Rooms
Posted in Events, tagged independent, Reading Rooms, SelectedPoems, V&A on March 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Happy St. Paddy’s Day!
Posted in Poetry finds, tagged Comedy, James Joyce, Pitch N Putt, Samuel Beckett on March 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To celebrate, whilst everyone is out dying their oceans green and drinking themselves to blurred senses, I’ll share some a themed short film with you all. Here, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett playing Pitch N Putt. If anything, this really made me want to eat a Topic.
Poem Strip: A defence and a public flogging
Posted in Reviews, tagged Achewood, Babycakes Diary, Ben Johncock, Brad Neely, Chris Onstad, Daniel Clowes, Dino Buzzati, Faber Academy, Howl Ginsberg, Joe Sacco Palestine, Poem Strip, Sarah Franklin, Wilson on March 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, I was made aware of Ben Johncock’s Tumblr blog through the lovely people over at Faber Academy. One of the nice elements of his blog is he asks the ‘bookish’ people a ‘half dozen’ questions on books and reading. One of these, with the writer, editor and publisher Sarah Franklin, detailed something that made [...]
Essex boys and beautiful books – talk at the V&A Reading Rooms
Posted in Events, Reviews, tagged An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, Jonathan Faiers, Reading Rooms, Taryn Simon, V&A, V&A Reading Rooms on March 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Update 7th March 2011: A very nice review of the same evening from the Sense Worldwide blog here. Thanks for the link, guys! I was incredibly lucky last night to be invited, by my good friend Bill Freeman, to a talk at the new V&A Reading Rooms. The talk, given by Essex boy Dr. Jonathan [...]
