Every reader of a book analyses a physically fixed text. The book is a piece of information, a sentiment or a story that remains stuck in time and space . . . 26/08/2004 read »
Would it not be great if, when you fell in love with someone, there was somebody employed to inform the object of your affection about your interest and to ask whether he or she would like to see you socially? . . . 20/05/2004 read »
Cyril Campbell thinks punk poet Cooke has become a bandwagon boy.
A year ago, I saw the 1970s Mancunian punk poet Barry Maxwell Cooke at a reunion gig with his band PepTalk, playing a support slot in a dingy nightclub in Catford . . . 01/04/2004 read »
Sadder than a young poet struck down in his prime, a Chatterton or Keats, is the verse-maker that never lived up to his potential due to a lingering and poisonous mental illness . . . 18/12/2003 read »
