Born in 1954. Chequered career including Lecturer in English, Social Worker and Lecturer in Social Work. Had breaks related to mental health that also meant I worked in social care. Now retired.
I’m hoping this is helpful but I wanted to state first of all that personally I don’t believe in giving great value to mental health diagnosis in providing support to people with issues related to mental health amongst whom I include myself. They can help with a formulation of mental health issues but their dangers … More From Bipolar to BPD: Diagnostics
For Bomberg being ‘Partizan’ took the self-identifying form of the masses representing the Jewish diaspora. Bomberg’s criss-cross-patterns ‘over the surface of a page’ represent the violence and excitement of diaspora Whitechapel as much as stylistic innovation focused upon by a Leeds City Gallery curator.[1] Jewish Theatre (1913-14) is ‘a violent image’,[2] eschewing ‘harmony’ and ‘unity’ … More An extract from writing on vorticism & crowds.
Leila Aboulela (2019) Bird Summons London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson Training to read literary fiction involves a kind of detection of the texts that constitute the conversation between genres, periods and sociocultural phenomena that is taking place in the interstices of any one single text before us – in the transitions between narrative forms and styles … More Leila Aboulela (2019) ‘Bird Summons’ London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Hearing/seeing Raymond Antrobus – Durham Book Festival Laureate 12th October 2019 This was an evening of illuminations. Did I miss a lot by following in my copy of the poems from The Perseverance (2018)? Watching the newer poems, I know I did, because here sign languages come into their own and open up the world … More Hearing/seeing Raymond Antrobus – Durham Book Festival Laureate 12th October 2019
Currently on show with Poussin Triumph of Pan, Trevor Gallery, Bishop Auckland Castle, Auckland Project: Francois B. Perrier Narcissus & Echo Thought to be near contemporary to The Triumph of Pan by Poussin, this painting is used to illustrate seventeenth century uses of mythological narratives or scenarios that illuminate Poussin’s context. For me the chief … More Bishop Auckland ‘Triumph of Pan’ exhibition Visit (2) Perrier’s Narcissus
A review for Black History Month (from a white man unfortunately) – Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys (2019) London, Fleet First a confession. I came to know and still, up to now, know Colson Whitehead’s novels by virtue of The Underground Railroad. I came to that quite accidentally having read Tracy Chevalier’s 2013 novel The … More A review for Black History Month (from a white man unfortunately) – Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys’ (2019) London, Fleet
Introducing Homo-somatism?: The nature of ‘queer’ readings in Art. Sunday, 18 Feb 2018, 14:57Visible to anyone in the world- Edited by Steve Bamlett, Sunday, 18 Feb 2018, 16:29– Edited by Steve Bamlett, Sunday, 18 Feb 2018, 15:23– Edited by Steve Bamlett, Sunday, 18 Feb 2018, 15:20 Introducing Homo-somatism?: The nature of ‘queer’ readings. How is the tolerance of … More Introducing Homo-somatism?: The nature of ‘queer’ readings in Art.
‘SPACES / PLACES’: Assessment (submitted to MoMA course on Modern Art & ideas) Friday, 2 Feb 2018, 20:26Visible to anyone in the world- Edited by Steve Bamlett, Monday, 5 Feb 2018, 09:04– Edited by Steve Bamlett, Friday, 2 Feb 2018, 20:28 I’ve always been intrigued by the terms, space’ and ‘place’. Places are spaces with other qualities, … More SPACES / PLACES: Assessment (submitted to MoMA course on Modern Art & ideas)
Reading Quichotte Salman Rushdie (2019) London, Jonathan Cape This novel ends as impressively as the stature of its author and its shortlisted status might suggest it does. There is constant reflexivity – it is a frameworking novel about the author of a novel within that novel, toying with Barthes ‘death of the author’ concept. It … More Reading ‘Quichotte’ Salman Rushdie (2019) London, Jonathan Cape
Reading Cockroach Ian McEwan (2019) London, Jonathan Cape With no reference to ‘actual cockroaches’, similarities to humans of the cockroaches & humans herein are open for recognition. This is the basic premise: that were cockroaches to metamorphosise (reversing the Kafka direction) into humans, they would support a cause that reduced the human world to disorder, … More Reading Cockroach Ian McEwan (2019) London, Jonathan Cape
First reading William Feaver (2019) The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth London, Bloomsbury Press I think this has to be a ‘first reading’ for me because much will be explained when we read the second volume covering the life lived from 1968. This volume – capacious as it is – ends on a kind of … More First reading of William Feaver’s (2019) ‘The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth’
@Jenni_Fagan #Truth Reading Jenni Fagan’s Truth : The Truth is out (and in) there Truth is a problem in poetry. Note Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella Elizabethan sonnet sequence which starts: Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show The homophone ‘fain’ and ‘feign’ here drives together the two kinds of … More Reading Jenni Fagan’s Truth : The Truth is out (and in) there. @Jenni_Fagan #Truth
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