by Peter Cowlam CIIIR A reining in at the eco-centre. Dials in reverse for the lost trials of inspection. Ends but a stunted survey, fixated on crowds and venues. They are here, young obsessives of ‘belonging’, cropped in line, and blessed by the shades of the dead, each with plans…
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Conservatives
Out and About in the Fourth Estate With Steven Gilfillan
Critical Alert I have it on the best authority, Borak Yesenin’s in fact, that there was one presence ghosting through Felicity Brick’s news report that only he and a handful of others were able to recognise. Felicity as we know is multilingual – French and Italian added to her English…
Bishop Berkeley
J. L. Borges: Berkeleianism versus Buckleianism
The Philosophy of Tlön, Uqbar, & Orbis Tertius By Peter Cowlam Berkeley, who was Bishop of Cloyne in 1734, denied the existence of matter in a reply to Locke (1632–1704), whose conception of the universe was Newtonian and mechanistic, a place where material bodies conformed to a clockwork modus operandi…
Peter Cowlam
Podcast: Follow Me Down
Photo by Alex Fu on Pexels.com by Peter Cowlam Words by Peter Cowlam; music composed by Jamie Roberts and released under CC0 licensing; effects curated by Jamie Roberts, and courtesy freesound.org. Original voice recording by Jeff Lowe, and studio production by Jamie Roberts. ‘Follow Me Down’ is a forty-eight-line poem….
Peter Cowlam
Peter Cowlam: 3 Poems
Peter Cowlam Cultivations Things over here are only intimations,flickers, non-lucent, light as obfuscation,detail vanishing in air. The gardens do not deserve the fate we havedesignated, emptied of the beings who madethem. They have gone. Their flora I cannot name,and no one is called back, not from the two-lanerutted tracks repeating…
arts policy
Excerpt: That Was Hugo Blythe MP
That Was Hugo Blythe MP, cover art credit Phil Hall a novel by Peter Cowlam, published by AN Editions That Was Hugo Blythe MP is the memoir, in diary form, of government researcher Alaric Casteele. It is set in a vaguely determined period in the early 2000s at the height…
James Wood
That Was Hugo Blythe MP
James Wood interviews seasoned author and publisher Peter Cowlam on the subject of his new book . Wood That Was Hugo Blythe MP looks back to the early 2000s. To what extent were you conscious when writing this book of the comparisons that will be made by readers between the…
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