Nae Hauf-Way Hoose

I'll ha'e nae hauf-way hoose, but aye be whaur / Extremes meet - it's the only way I ken / To dodge the curst conceit o' bein' richt / That damns the vast majority o' men.

Sunday, 16 October 2022

Cancel The Green World

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Please, let’s not be drongos. Calm the farm (or settle in The Green World): Shakespeare is not being ‘cancelled’. That last phrase doesn’t...

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Friday, 27 November 2020

Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel

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[Notes for the speech I gave this afternoon launching Adam Grener's wonderful new book Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Centur...

Saturday, 9 May 2020

Tradition and Liberation: a memory of Neil Davidson (1957 - 2020)

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I had been expecting to see Neil Davidson again at Historical Materialism in London last year, where we had caught up last – in 2015 – ...

Sunday, 12 January 2020

My 2019 in Poetry

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I was on holiday, and away from a computer, when all of the end-of-decade best-of lists were getting writte...

Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Red Salute to Teresia Teaiwa

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The last proper conversation I had with Teresia Teaiwa involved a lot of scheming. We had, the year before, come out of a partial victory...

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