Thank You for Reading! This blog is now closed, since I have finally worked out how to set up and maintain my own website and have transferred everything there. All the posts will stay here untouched, but they have been transferred to my new site as well. My new website and blog can be accessed simply by clicking here. Today, I wept as I opened the book and Dennis apologised. But he could not see, and it was.

Saturday, March 31, 2012. Toni Morrison on the Origins of American Racism. In her 2008 novel A Mercy. Toni Morrison imagines a frontier Virginia of the late 1600s, a century before the American Revolution. She has found in this time and place valuable insights into the relationship between slavery and race, a relationship that is taken for granted but that is after all contingent.

Only the preparatory drawings, and collages are left, giving my works an almost legendary character. I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain. Christo, responding to his critics. What You Need To Know.

Poetry, criticism and comment, now moved to www. Sunday, 6 April 2008. Editing in to say that I have now also got a PR and copywriting blog called Text Pixels.

Originally started in 2008, Bloggerel has been a place for us to discuss literature, not only the latest news from Alma and the inner workings of publishing, but also to post about some of the hidden gems from classical literature. Tuesday, 12 November 2013.

Am I missing anything? Sunday, 26 April 2015. Should Hackney politicians have serious views on the supernatural? Last week, during a shameful episode of self-Googling, I discovered that a 2009 Blood and Property post had been revisited by Iain Sinclair in his 2011 book Ghost Milk.

Tuesday, 9 October 2012. Was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize in 2004. A car stopped off the road. And a man trying to repair it. The woman who stays in the car. In the classic American scene. Stares back at the freeway traffic.

Tuesday, 19 July 2016. Come along? Sunday, 12 June 2016. She from the spent cushion. Grasps his clothing, not. To keep him but to indicate pleasure-.

Poetry Menu and Blind Poetry. Links to poems, audio and film. What does home mean to you? .

Tuesday, 16 April 2013. Now that the novelty of this has worn off, though, what strikes me most is the attitude it reveals. The seats themselves are invariably clean, because most people are.