The Circumflex

Having watched three “well-intentioned” Hollywood products in the last three months -Syriana, Babel and now Blood Diamond I am struck by the queer distortion in these ‘liberal’ efforts to expose or at least explore the evil of the global condition (did I just say ‘evil’? iniquities would be a better term ).   And by exploring [...]

Whilst visiting London with my eleven year-old son to attend the Royal Society of Literature AGM and award ceremony, I took the opportunity between the zoo and the National Army Museum to visit Damien Hirst’s Beyond Belief exhibition in Mason’s Yard.  I have found in the past that my children “get” Damien Hirst and conceptual art [...]

This title, stolen I admit from the poem in by David Weevil which I first encountered in A. Alvarez’s book The New Poetry when I was in my late teens, keeps circling and recycling in my creative consciousness.  Sharks have always been a liet motif in my work and now some bright young spur has [...]