December 2007
11 posts
'Alison' (a gallery) →
I apologise to my child(ren?) in advance. I love this idea. Go on, kid. Say yes.
“Man is no star, but a quick coal
Of mortal fire;
Who blows...”
– 42opus | George Herbert | Employment (II)
Jacob is...
…officially back on the grid. Been offline teaching a residential creative writing course for Arvon in a farmhouse in Yorkshire, and simultaneously suffering from a nasty flu bug. Must have had something to do with that cold shower on a near-freezing Tuesday morning. Without heating. Ouch. Apart from the raging fever, aches, shakes and near out-of-body-ness, it was a good week. Kudos...
Curzon Soho now has wi-fi... →
For the laptop geeks out there. I don’t know how “free” it is, but the site says it’s there. Could be a nice alternative to Ray’s Jazz Cafe… ;) Update: it’s not free. There was a “free public” hotspot that floated up, but I had problems connecting to it. Had to use BT Openzone at £6/hr. Boo. Hiss.
“we are generally expected to be unconditionally philanthropic, to donate our...”
– In the Gro(o)ve and Other Poetry/Work Related Thoughts [poetaensanfrancisco.blog-city.com]
Does the advent of the motion picture make the individual photograph obsolete? No? I sat on the periphery of an interesting discussion about the function of longer works of fiction (novels) in relation to poems, or collections of poems, where novels were viewed as more challenging enterprises, work that stretched the writer, and perhaps allowed the writer to say more. Hmmm. Didn’t have...
“One of the grad students I met with at University of Alabama told me he was wary...”
– Poetics and Place [poetaensanfrancisco.blog-city.com]
WatchNovelist and poet Chris Abani believes the heart of a place can be best understood through its poems and narratives.
“Language makes the world in which we live.”
“We’re all trying to approximate the truth of our own communities…”