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, 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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Monday, 7 September 2015

Symmes Roll

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In breaks at work these last weeks I've been dipping in and out of James McGonigal and John Coyle's fine and generous selection ...

Saturday, 18 April 2015

ANZAC: they'll remember it for us wholesale

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I hadn’t expected the shift from pomposity to kitsch to be so sudden, or so vertiginous. Gesturing at its own hyperreality the openin...

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Wednesday, 8 April 2015

Jottings from Marxism in Melbourne

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Back yesterday from a week in Melbourne, and four days at Marxism 2015 . I’ve been travelling across, on and off, to Mar...

Tuesday, 3 September 2013

And catch the heart off guard and blow it open

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Teach the free man how to praise . What is there to say about the writers who settle in and become part of your everyday life, co-hab...

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