Monthly Archives: July 2011
The Iceman Cometh
You know you’ve become boring and bourgeois when you spend a snowy day indoors, working from home: no snowballs, snow fights or fun; just the vague luxuries of not bothering to shower, and spending all day snacking between paragraphs. That … Continue reading
Filed under Culture and Society
R.A.K. Mason, ‘The Body of John’, and Reading a Poem
AHD puts himself on display, performing a dissatisfying exegesis of R.A.K. Mason’s ‘The Body of John’, showing in slow-motion how to not make much sense of a poem. Even if you don’t come out feeling that you’ve gained that much, at least you’ll know that you’re not alone in the struggle of reading poetry. Continue reading
Filed under Literary Criticism
A Few Words on Ian Wishart
AHD returns from a publishing hiatus to discuss the Ian Wishart controversy, suggesting that there is a difference between freedom of speech and no one wanting to read what you write. Continue reading
Filed under Culture and Society
