There’s no need to be afraid this Christmas the landlords are all gone home to their mums in outer suburbia we can’t get turkey, mistletoe or snow on credit any more than poetry will get us into the club of our dreams on the bus gone very hot and fast to bed instead with the new living elves of a breadline
Grown livid in labouring pains for kids at the sonnet workshop wanting to sit on the same old future’s necrotic knee would it not be lovely to make a bid adoring sentiment this counterfeit O kisses of ownership set us free
100 gecs – 10,000 gecs @ – Mind Palace Music Almost Nothing – Almost Nothing Bad Bunny – Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana Beach Fossils – Bunny Belle & Sebastian – Late Developers Blondshell – Blondshell Bully – Lucky For You Caroline Polachek – Desire, I want to turn into you Cold War Kids – Cold War Kids crushed – extra life feeble little horse – Girl with Fish Fred again…, Brian Eno – Secret Life Gaz Coombes – Turn the Car Around HEALTH – RAT WARS Hozier – Unreal Earth Jam City – Jam City Presents EFM Julie Byrne – The Greater Wings Kali Malone – Does Spring Hide Its Joy katie dey – never falter hero girl Kelora – Gloomerald Lana Del Rey – Did you know there’s a tunnel under ocean boulevard Max Syedtollan – Disposables Mitski – The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We mui zyu – Rotten Bun from an Eggless Century Natalie Madigan – YANG Oneohtrix Point Never – Again PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying Slowdive – everything is alive Sofia Kourtesis – Madres Sparklehorse – Bird Machine Sufjan Stevens – Javelin Sun Glitters – A ma z!ng Teenage Fan Club – Nothing Lasts Forever The Japanese House – In the End it Always Does The Kills – God Games The Lemon Twigs – Everything Harmony There Will Be Fireworks – Summer Moon Total Leatherette – Dappled Shade Vagabon – Sorry I Haven’t Called Vatican Shadow – Destroy Chemical Weapons Wednesday – Rat Saw God Wilco – Cousin yeule – softscars
This is a talk about meadows. A meadow is a place of expanse and exposure, where Man shoots the mother deer in the Disney classic Bambi (1942). It is a site of slag heaps, fly-tipping, wild and opportunistic overgrowth; the edge land between industrial estates sprung up with buddleia against the odds. Ambling between creative and critical approaches, this talk makes a case for the gerund meadowing as a conceptual and methodological imperative for porous and cross-pollinating consciousness. The excesses of meadows suggest how we might glean forms of abundance and ongoingness from the discards of capitalist efficiency. We will take seriously the imperative ‘go touch grass’, not as pastoral consolation or escape but rather as a cultivating logic of regeneration. The aesthetic tendencies of meadowing — dense citation practise, polyrhythmia, borrowing from the im/possibilities of dream — are entwined with an ecological ethic of entanglement and suspension.
I am going to be in New York(!) for a few days in December, doing some readings with a motley crew of Scottish poets: Colin Herd, Jane Goldman, Iain Morrison, Nicky Melville.
So far, confirmed events are:
Sunday 17th, 12-3pm – Scottish Poetry Brunch at Torn Page. RSVP.
Monday 18th, 6:30-8pm – Poetry: A Christmastime Gathering with Four Scottish Poets at Frenchtown Bookshop. More info.
If you have any recommendations of cool things happening between the 16-21st of December in NY, hit me up!
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