Thank you Michael Caines for giving us a mention in @thetls.bsky.social!
"A notable revival is the Barbellion prize-named for W.N.P. Barbellion, the diarist, who suffered from multiple sclerosis - which "celebrates & promotes writing that represents the experience of chronic illness & disability"…
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Current reading - NYRB Classic - Down Below - Leonora Carrington's nonfiction account of her breakdown and incarceration in an asylum in Spain. 30-page intro by Marina Walker is useful for someone new to Carrington's work. The 68-page account itself is pretty harrowing and (for me) essential reading
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For example, the first and only novel published by legendary nouvelle vague director Éric Rohmer, in its first English translation by @memoiressecrets.bsky.social, and here deemed "a poignant tale of summer languor at its last gasp."
The Barbellion Prize
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field view, Wednesday
Originally published in 1946, the lone novel from celebrated French New Wave filmmaker Rohmer (1920–2010) is an alluring if ramb...
Just been sitting on the front step reading what I realise is my favourite poem: Mandelstam’s Nadshedshii podkovy (The Horseshoe Finder). And there I see a horseshoe my daughter found at the weekend.
Here with the wonderful translation by Anthony Barnett from: abar.net/mandelstam.pdf
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McNally Editions
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