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Slow Language Movement?2 comments

Andy wrote 5 months ago: Fascinating interview on NPR this morning with author Nick Laird. While the bulk of the interview wa … more →

Tags: Ideas!, slow language

My happy ending

bboylimping wrote 5 months ago: It’s no secret that every month or so I like to treat myself to a happy ending. It occurs in t … more →

Tags: Music, New York, Joe's Pub, Happy Ending, Amanda Stern, Elvis Perkins, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Kevin Canty, matthew caws

Slow language

thenextwavefutures wrote 5 months ago: I’m a fan of the poet/novelist Nick Laird’s sometime contributions to the Guardian … more →

Tags: Emerging Issues, Digital, Social, Culture, time, Poetry, slow language, Slow Food, Nick Carr

Dream Smaller1 comment

Martin wrote 11 months ago: Revolutionary Road was the only book of his own that Yates considered a masterpiece, regretting that … more →

Tags: Books, films, Grauniad, Richard Yates

Eliot the Banker

Julie Palmer-Hoffman wrote 1 year ago: TS Eliot was a banker. This fairly common bit of trivia about one of the 20th century’s foremo … more →

Tags: Thoughts, Poetry, Events, Sean O'Brien, Michael Donaghy, Breis, Power in the Voice, Joelle Taylor, hip-hop

how do you say his name again?2 comments

msbaroque wrote 1 year ago: Last night I went – still mellowed out from my lovely evening in Surbiton – to a dinner … more →

Tags: Living With Words, Poetry International 2008, Poetry International, Evan Hoffman, zligniew herbert, Lost In Translation

Thank You Nick Laird1 comment

Weston Cutter wrote 1 year ago:   If you’re not somewhat jealous of Nick Laird you either don’t know enough about him oryou’re a rea … more →

Tags: Poetry, Dave Eggers, on purpose, Utterly Monkey, To A Fault, zadie smith

Depth beneath surface energy5 comments

Tom wrote 1 year ago: My reviews of On Purpose by Nick Laird (above), Mario Petrucci’s Flowers of Sulphur and Todd S … more →

Tags: Poetry and Writing, tom chivers, poetry london, mario petrucci, Todd Swift

Nick Laird--Utterly Monkey (2006)

Paul wrote 2 years ago: SOUNDTRACK: MY MORNING JACKET-Okonokos (2006). [READ: Summer 2006] Utterly Monkey. I have a huge fon … more →

Tags: BritLit, nick hornby, Colin Bateman, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Ben Elton, zadie smith, My Morning Jacket, adventure


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