As part of the Scottish Poetry Library’s ‘Reading Room’ series, I make some horribly personal disclosures, and also offer, somewhat belatedly, a few half-thoughts on Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’.
China article
My Edinburgh Review piece on the riots in Xinjiang has been picked up by Eurozine, a site that brings together social and political articles from various magazines and journals.
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-08-12-holdstock-en.html
At the end of the piece I wrote that there have been ‘few [recent] reported incidents of protest, violent or otherwise’.
This is no longer the case:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/11/terrorism.china http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080812/ap_on_re_as/china_violence
As far I can tell, it is unclear who is committing these acts. Whilst they are probably motivated by separatism, the extent to which (if any) they are Islamist, remains to be determined.
Stand
My story ‘The Fun of the Fair’ is in the new issue of Stand (Vol 8:2). This is a story that I first submitted to them almost 3 years ago. Even by the protracted standards of literary magazines, this is an impressively long time. But it is a nice magazine, with a good history, so it’s only been faintly excruciating to wait. If your library is excellent, and poetry-minded, they may have a copy.
Otherwise, you can get a copy from them direct at http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dlatane/stand-maga/
Surprisingly, it is not in the Native American issue (Vol 8:1) presently billed as the current issue.
And so, finally
Well, I’m going to try and get this site active. At least sporadically. Sort of.
I’m going to be reading at a few places in August- At the Edinburgh Book festival on August 12th, at 3.40, in the Bookshop. And in the Book Fringe at Wordpower on August 18th at 2.15. Along with Ryan van Winkle, a fine poet and friend, and Kapka Kassabova, whose excellent memoir has just received a great review in the Guardian.
More to follow on publications.
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