Kester Brewin

Author: KB

  • ‘Does Your Soul Have a Cold?’ | Wholphin | IFC Monday 9pm EDT

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    Out of the same stable as The Believer, Wholphin is a short-story mag for short films. They mailed me today about a great-looking film, showing on IFC this Monday at 9pm EDT. (I’d love someone to record it for me 😉 The spiel goes: Back in 2000, western pharmaceutical companies began a massive marketing campaign…

  • Dump

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    Still on holiday here, and doing some clearing jobs around the house/garden that have been building up for a while. Which means I’ve had to go to the dump today – one of the finest, most joyous experiences in the urban environment. You go heavy loaded, driving slowly, suspension almost topping out… and leave it…

  • Autumn

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    Trees sense a moment when the balance between night and day changes. The shorter days trigger the development of a suicidal hormone in each leaf which creeps down the stem to the joint with the woody twig. Here it stimulates the growth of a sphincter of brittle, hard tissue that gradually closes in on itself,…

  • OneVoice: To End the Conflict in Israel/Palestine

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    From the 18th October celebrations. All power to this arm. Technorati: Israel | OneVoice | Palestine

  • The God Who Loves You | Carl Dennis

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    I was privileged to go and share some stuff at Si Johnston’s group here on the north coast of NI tonight, and one of the people there, who’d I spent some time with at the Soliton Sessions here last February, read a fantastic poem by the Pulitzer prize-winning poet Carl Dennis, which I just had…

  • Down to the Green Darkness

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    I’m in Ireland at the moment, finishing a novel, staying with a great friend who lives on the north coast. Yesterday evening we went surfing – one of those things I enjoy but do not well – and when I got back I’d had another email from a regal friend containing an article from Anne…