• Todd Swift and Greg Santos read | 22 June 2011

    [Click image to enlarge] – – Todd Swift’s poems were published in issue #2 , issue #3 and issue #11 of Cha. Greg Santos’s poetry was published in issue #10 of Cha. – –

  • Alistair Noon’s "Hill with Bunker and Flak Tower"

    – You can now read Alistair Noon’s poem “Hill with Bunker and Flak Tower” on the Longbarrow Press website. The poem, first published in Gists and Piths, will be included in Alistair’s forthcoming pamphlet Swamp Area (revised and expanded from…

  • J.A. Tyler in >kill author

    J.A. Tyler’s “[ the fourth house /// rebuilt ]” is now published in >kill author. Read the piece here. You can also listen to Tyler’s reading of the work (it is very good). – – J.A. Tyler’s fiction was published…

  • Sensuality in Thomas Malthus’s An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)

    – “The superiority of intellectual to sensual pleasures consists rather in their filling up more time, in their having a larger range, and in their being less liable to satiety, than in their being more real and essential.” “Intemperance in…

  • About parrots – “Him choke from prejudice”

    –– See this post about a famous parrot in the literary world. In Paul West’s Lord Byron’s Doctor (1989), J. W. Polidori writes, ‘He [Byron] never actually said Pretty Polly, but it was in his eye, all right, and I suppose I was a…

  • Recollection 22 – Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot

    ,  Here are some quotes from Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot which I found particularly interesting. Isn’t the most reliable form of pleasure, Flaubert implies, the pleasure of anticipation? Who needs to burst into fulfilment’s desolate attic? p. 4 When I was a…

  • How many romantic kisses are there in the entire body of Virginia Woolf’s work?

    The Kiss (1897-8) by Munch  Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours, answers in a Guardian article: [Virginia Woolf] wrote not at all about sex. Her entire body of work contains two romantic kisses – one in The Voyage Out, another…

  • 不想回憶, 未敢忘記

    不想回憶, 未敢忘記 we stand on the side of the egg ::: 離 離 原 上 草 ,   一 歲 一 枯 榮 。 野 火 燒 不 盡 ,   春 風 吹 又 生 。 from 草 | 白 居 易

  • Demolish

    [Click image to enlarge] “Here we are in old Shanghai. But many of the buildings here have a kind of symbol stamped on them. This means simply one word — DEMOLISH.” DEMOLISH. DEMOLISH. DEMOLISH. DEMOLISH. And so on. “The massive rebuilding programme…

  • Marc Vincenz in Poets and Artists

    – Marc Vincenz’s new poem “Self-Portrait of a Lion as His Own Mistress” (pp. 46-47) with an audio in synergy with Kristy Gordon’s triptych “But my heart does not in any way agree with the perception of my eyes” can…