Author: KB
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There Is No Resurrection…
Life, After Death. There is no resurrection only life, after death: after death, the resurrection, in time, of life, drawing vigour from one that has passed and refusing to let them pass without their last blessing. His favourite verse: ‘Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him til daybreak.’ ‘The man said “Let…
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Gimme the Loot : Pirates at the Jacobin
Really nice article by Gavin Mueller over at the Jacobin – a magazine of culture and polemic -asking if piracy has been a ‘radical force.’ Once the heroes of nations, pirates went from being state-sponsored champions to tolerated annoyances to the basest sort of criminals. Henry Morgan was knighted after plundering Panama in 1674; fifty years…
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National Poetry Day | New Poem: Phases
Phases Hard to say how many moons more will rise and fall and grow and die before he wanes for good. Through diminishing slits now his light is reflected: shadows seep quietly, inexorably, across a greying surface where life once teemed. Body-blows and craters; the sun struggles, gravity weakens; there is no more breath, then…
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Paula Le DieuA Brief History of Copyright | Do Lectures
Really nice video here (thanks to Luke Sital Singh for pushing it my way) from the Do Lectures weekend in 2011, at which the Director of Digital content at the British Film Institute, Paula Ledieu, gives a short history of copyright, what’s gone wrong with it, and how it needs to be fixed. This…
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Welcoming the ‘Piss Christ’ | A Church ‘Purified to the Point of Sterility.’
Interesting to note that, even after all these years, Andreas Serrano’s work, the ‘Piss Christ’ is still causing controversy over in the US as the election approaches. (Thanks, Barry, for the link) Many years ago, when I focused more on theology, I wrote The Complex Christ (Signs of Emergence in the US) which had a…
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Advice for Writers: Don’t Read Too Much Advice for Writers
There always seems to be a steady stream of posts from literary magazine sites giving lists of advice for writers. Zadie Smith has a series of 10 points in The Atlantic at the moment, highlights including Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All…