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THROWING THE FRAME AND DROPPING A BAG
Throwing the frame is the act of sorting the mail before you leave the office to deliver it. The modular frame is configured in much the...
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Michael Jarvie
- Oct 21, 2019
- 8 min
Béla Bartók: folk music, censorship and anti-fascism
If you’ve ever seen Stanley Kubricks’ film The Shining you will have heard some of Bartók’s characteristic ‘night music’ – in this...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Apr 26, 2019
- 3 min
IDENTITY PARADE
‘Who are you?’ shouts a lone motorcyclist across the breadth of the Suez Canal in the direction of the figure of T.E. Lawrence. This is a...
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Michael Jarvie
- Apr 9, 2019
- 4 min
NEO-NOIR RITUAL
The bus into town stinks of vomit. Fearful of what might lie ahead, you tread warily along the aisle. An old woman sits directly in front...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Mar 21, 2019
- 1 min
Georg Trakl in Translation
IN SPRING The snow sank softly from dark footfalls, In the tree-shadow Lovers raise their rosy eyelids. Star and night always follow the...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Mar 17, 2019
- 3 min
On Discovering the Poetry of Georg Trakl
I first encountered the poetry of Georg Trakl in The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry. Then, in about 1985, I came across an...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Feb 17, 2019
- 6 min
A FULL MAN
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. Francis Bacon ‘Of Studies’ How on earth was I going to...
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Michael Jarvie
- Jan 31, 2019
- 2 min
INTO THE SILENCE
To obsessively compose and rearrange those familiar characters that stretch in taut black furrows across the perfect whiteness of the...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Jan 27, 2019
- 1 min
Now You Can Blog from Everywhere!
We’ve made it quick and convenient for you to manage your blog from anywhere. In this blog post we’ll share the ways you can post to your...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Jan 27, 2019
- 1 min
Design a Stunning Blog
When it comes to design, the Wix blog has everything you need to create beautiful posts that will grab your reader's attention. Check out...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Jan 27, 2019
- 1 min
Grow Your Blog Community
With Wix Blog, you’re not only sharing your voice with the world, you can also grow an active online community. That’s why the Wix blog...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Dec 13, 2018
- 4 min
Authenticity
One of These Dead Places by Jane Burn Jane Burn has forged her characteristic poetical voice in what can only be described as the most...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Dec 10, 2018
- 4 min
The Sword of the Templars - a review
The Sword of the Templars by the Canadian author Christopher Hyde (writing under the pseudonym of Paul Christopher) was first published...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Nov 2, 2018
- 3 min
LITERARY SOCIAL CLEANSING
The recent triumph of Milkman by Anna Burns in the Booker Prize has brought to the forefront the issue of working-class writers and their...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Sep 24, 2018
- 3 min
Bostin Fittle
Corvus’ burnt-wing love balm and cure-all is the third poetry chapbook by the Black Country poet R.M. Francis and it is brought to us by...
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Michael Jarvie
- Sep 8, 2018
- 4 min
NOT PAINTING BY NUMBERS
Let’s get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Aug 23, 2018
- 3 min
ENOUGH ROPE TO HANG THEM WITH
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, being a working-class writer is fucking hard. The mainstream publishing industry is primarily owned and...
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