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I’m struggling to keep up. Yesterday it was all about #BloJo, today a whip called, I kid you not, Pincher has resigned for drunkenly groping two blokes. What is wrong with these people? In 2017 Pincher was accused of making a pass at a former Olympic rower like a “pound shop Harvey Weinstein”.

I got hit by a car the other day. I’m ok, tbe bike’s ok, I’m just bruised and knackered and not really up to a night of Baudelaire inspired revelry. I had been looking forward to it.

I think the original text on the screen looked like a boot - hence booting/ re-booting But yes, one couldn’t pull oneself up by one’s own bootstrap - an impossible task

Another that I have noticed is people are saying 'i was so angry i was spitting feathers!' which has mixed up two things: I was so angry I was spitting nails I was so thirsty i was spitting feathers. It annoys me when people get these things wrong and i teach language change and i know i am...

Tony White’s Fountain the Forest is a good recent example of using constraints to great effect. And of course, Their Brilliant Careers by an Australian Oulipo practitioner has a lot of fun with it all too.

Not a particularly apt comparison - it is a novel built out of a number of constraints that Perec employs to create a snapshot of Paris, the movement between apartments is based on a complex plan using a grid and the knight's tour to navigate in and out of the lives of the occupants. There are...

I think that something like I Remember gives you a quick flavour of his stuff. Species of Spaces, Things, W are all great - i'd save Life: A User's Manual as i think it's his masterpiece - the others La Disparation, A Man Asleep and 53 Days are all good but not quite up to LAUM. Also if you can...

Not sure who this is aimed at or what it even means.

It’s refugee week so I always share this with my classes. It’s from the Sir Thomas More, at this point in the play, More (who was then London’s Deputy Sheriff) is called upon to put down an anti-immigration riot in the Parish of St Martin Le Grand, that took place on 1st May 1517. Grant them...

Although I do prefer the studio version, I love this. It’s the trio at their playful and locked in. But mostly I love it for the joy of the playing and the way they never lose sight of the tune. And finally it reminds me that the piano is both melodic and also a percussive instrument.

I really enjoyed it. I was part of an online ‘happening’ every weekend during first lockdown. Hughes was on it reading from a long poem by Jonathan Gibbs based on Autumn Journal. He talked about his acting life as well as his writing. I had a lot of time for him.

Penman on KB. I think the connection to Coil is interesting. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v36/n08/ian-penman/sonic-foam

Because I can’t find a thread for general nature writing…this will have to be its home. Just got this in the post - Field Notes by Maxim Peter Griffin. I backed it via Unbound ages ago - it has started well and may appeal to some on here with some lovely illustrations and references to Can and...

You’re right - it’s not my favourite but what do I know?

I’ve just started a whole bunch of new stuff The Europeans - an early Henry James. I finished Washington Sq recently. Like Forster I think he’s like an anthropologist trying to understand the rites and rituals of a soon to be extinct tribe. The Raft by Tom de Freston - ostensibly about...

I like that one a lot

And this…

Is this the kind of thing (and if not, it’s still a great 80s tune)

“Johnson has also rewritten the foreword to the code, removing all references to honesty, integrity, transparency and accountability.”