As you can no doubt tell if you visit here often, I’ve just given my website a lick of paint. The only kind of web design I know is that of Doctor Frankenstein, and as such this site is more stitched together than coded. I figure if I throw enough lightning at the thing it …
I’d hoped to write something about Second World War poet Keith Douglas yesterday, since it was the eleventh of November, but today will have to do instead. Besides, I’m sure I’ll mention him on a hundred more blog posts, because he’s such an enormous inspiration. A few times people have asked me what my influences were when …
Edgar Allan Poe is having his second funeral this Sunday. I’ve just posted about it on my Litro blog, but it’s such a splendidly odd thing that I wanted to bring it to your attention here too. I’ve posted a few related links over at Litro, but type “Poe Funeral” into Google and you’ll find …
This is a bit of an excuse to tell you about what I did on my holidays, but I couldn’t resist showing you some pictures of the library in the woods at End Of The Road. It’s just such a great idea, these bookshelves affixed to trees in decorated woodland. They had the bad Victorian version …
I went to see District 9 last night and can’t really rate it highly enough. It’s like a sci-fi version of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, and it’s gripping from start to finish. The only downside is how impactful it is. I dreamed all night of my feet turning into slime and insect claws, which now I …