ART LITERATURE.
Clinic Presents: Romance w/ Tubelord
Poetry/Arts collective, Clinic are hosting their last event at the Amersham Arms on Friday, launching a new pamphlet and Tubelord are playing live.
Don’t get caught… (or A Political Awakening Through Literature)
Ageing folky popster, Crouch End resident and sometime actor, Bob Dylan once said “to live outside the law you must be honest” or somesuch – he then strummed at a passing electric guitar and thousands of his fans exploded.
Five Dials ~ Pedagogic Poems for Parents
Five Dials is a free PDF literary magazine and a baby brother to a publisher called Hamish Hamilton (formerly an independent, now an imprint of the mighty behemoth known as Penguin Books). Hamish Hamilton have published everyone from Albert Camus to Joe Dunthorne (he wrote Submarine which you probably saw filmed by Richard Ayoade). Five Dials have published Leonard Cohen, James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem…
The Bvlgari
It was announced this morning that Louis Vuitton had unveiled a plan to takeover Italian Jewleller Bvlgari for some £3bn. It seems that luxury brands aren’t as damaged by the economic downturn as the rest of us, due in part to huge economic growth in China (eat that Joseph McCarthey).
Day #4: Nadia Khomami – A Postscript
You must be wondering what on earth it is that I am here for. But before I embark on chronicling all of my current contemplations, let me begin by setting the sought out scene and subject of my present thinking for you.
Day #3: All Hallow’s Eve by Nadia Khomami
Each Day this week we are featuring a different piece of work by Nadia Khomami, the girl with the literary skills. Drunk, lulled and restless I had drifted Beneath a silent, idle sky, I sat and Watched the night glide
Day #2: Ben Crosby by Nadia Khomami
This week we are featuring the work of contemporary poet Nadia Khomami.
One Week With Nadia Khomami
A member of the prestigious Barbican Young Poets scheme, a freelance journalist, working on her début novel and co-founding a literary journal, it’s safe to say that she has fully immersed herself in ‘the house of the unconscious,’ a term she uses to describe the place at the back of every poet’s mind, where thoughts unfound and unspoken come to gather and grow.
Could You Love Me in a Bentley? Could You Love Me on a Bus?
Josh is a young writer living and working in London, he recently wrote a collection of stories from the fictitious points of view of contemporary R&B stars. Contact details are available upon request.
Post-rush-hour
I wait in the rain for the 10:19 at Blackheath station to take me to London Bridge, an announcement informs me that my train will call at Lewisham, New Cross, London Bridge, Waterloo East and London Charing Cross, it’s 10:16.