http://www.verbivoraciouspress.org/the-alan-burns-omnibus-volume-one/
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 13 July 2017 08:14 (six years ago) link
(have yet to actually read the one novel of his i did eventually find)
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 13 July 2017 08:16 (six years ago) link
Oh, good. Not avaiable in the UK though. I've got another one of his novels lined up to read, I'll get round to it eventually.
― weird echo of the falsies (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 July 2017 08:55 (six years ago) link
The publisher has some good reprints, but their books are incredibly ugly.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 14 July 2017 05:12 (six years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09tybwl
^ A programme on all of this. Managed to raise a smile early on for a couple of mins worrying away as to whether this is a group or not (unlike France say) - its got that insecurity of 'have the Brits done anything since Shakespeare and Milton?' about it. 20 mins in and I'm not hearing any new points but it doesn't matter. Its got some nice archive stuff.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 11 March 2018 12:51 (six years ago) link
lol @ Brooke-Rose making a weird point 25 mins in that you wouldn't read her books on the train (which is a consumer product). I am so reading her on public transport.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 11 March 2018 12:55 (six years ago) link
Eimear McBride does take a knife to a lot of this (in a nice enough way). As in Beckett is a lot better than this.
Good discussion of the poetry (unexpected amount of time given to Bob Cobbing), although they could've discussed J H Prynne. I suspect much of the poetry and Ann Quin (on the prose side) is what will endure.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 11 March 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
Just finished "See the Old Lady Decently". Didn't like it much tbh.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
... also "Thru" by Christine Brooke-Rose is sitting waiting for me but I'm not in the mood.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 13:58 (four years ago) link
xp the construction is kinda interesting but yeah remember being completely nonplussed when i finally managed to get hold of a copy
― devvvine, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 15:39 (four years ago) link
It's the worst thing of his I've read, though "Trawl" is pretty boring.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
need to reread trawl; remember it being pretty slow going but certain bits, like the evacuee class war epiphany, always come back to me
― devvvine, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 15:57 (four years ago) link
i deal with tom stoppard at work occasionally and am always tempted to ask about their beef
― devvvine, Tuesday, 10 September 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
Big Bryan had a beef with everyone, more or less.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 15:59 (four years ago) link