how working-class academics are set up to fail
working as a (very) minor academic in art schools and FE colleges in the 1980s was for me an often enjoyable but relentlessly insecure existence. this culminated in my giving
derek walcott, the art of poetry no. 37
from the paris review Interviewed by Edward Hirsch I went to visit Derek Walcott on his home island of St. Lucia in mid-June, 1985. St. Lucia is one of the
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by Anne Waldman (from ‘the paris review’) Perhaps I’m kidding myself about the life I lead Sometimes I feel I’m dying like a lot of things I see around me Then I
memorial to the victims of COVID19
Uruguayan architecture firm Gómez Platero has designed the world’s first memorial for the victims of the COVID-19 outbreak. The vast, 40m-wide circular structure will provide not only a safe space
covid-19 is an opportunity to rethink how we work
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refuge
refuge one of the more revolting things i’ve been seeing in these revolting times is the continuing demonisation of refugees, attempting to cross the english channel from french camps, to