The Infra-Avant-Garde

Keston Sutherland’s long poem Hot White Andy (2007) begins:

Lavrov and the Stock Wizard levitate over to

the blackened dogmatic catwalk and you eat them. Now swap

buy for eat, then fuck for buy, then ruminate for…

Carry on Carrying

In the run-up to last Christmas I went to loads of parties. Of course I did, I’m a man, I’m a man with a plan-ner, a planner full of engagements and functions and social events to attend. Yeahhhhh…..Well, no, not really. One thing which set the last Christmas ‘party season’ apart from the rest —…

Technology, Freedom and the ‘Act Divorced from all Feeling’

A few weeks ago BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours discussed the question ‘Should pornography be discussed as part of sex education?’ The programme was responding to the Children’s Commissioner for England’s press release, which…