Adrian Slatcher Online
Adrian Slatcher writes poetry, fiction and criticism, and lives in Manchester.
New Poems at All the Sins
It’s been too long since I’ve had any poems published so I was particularly pleased that the online magazine All The Sins has chosen two of my poems “Artist Pop” and “Joni” for their 3rd issue which asked for work inspired by other artists – which these two do – respectively Andy Warhol and Joni Mitchell. Both on the playful side I think.
You can read my poems and other work here at All The Sins Issue 3.
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Art of Fiction – Blogging About Literature
- Resisting Conservative Narratives in CultureThe 1930s have long been on my mind. Weimar art and culture is a vibrant pot that continues to be worth stirring, and its ending as the Nazis came to power, remains the lesser tragedy, given what happened in the war, but nonetheless a tragedy that still resonates. And given that memories fade, or history gets rewritten, art continues to be a rebuke against f […]
- More Than Words: Book Design in Contemporary PoetrySometimes you only notice things when seeing from a different angle. Having recently moved house, I began unpacking my books, putting all the poetry books in one place for the first time. There are some striking designs in poetry history: the wonderful typographical covers of sixties and seventies Faber Thom Gunns; the stark look of New Directions beat poets […]
- Books Furnish a RoomHaving just moved house, it means I've also moved around 100 large boxes of books, CDs and records. A month in, and I'm still only some way through the unpacking. This is deliberate accumulation, years rummaging the second hand and charity shops as well as buying new stuff. I seem to have replaced the reading of books with the buying of them.That […]
- A Cultural CatastropheHistory moves like an iceberg cracks, first slowly and hardly noticeably, and then with an almighty jolt, as the fissure becomes a calamitous crack. Brexit feels ever more like that iceberg. It is not a catastrophe built in days, weeks or months, though the running commentary since the vote will no doubt be subject of quite a few history books, but in years. […]
- Slade House by David MitchellI've not touched in with David Mitchell for a while, having not read his last major novel "The Bone Clocks", from which some ideas in "Slade House" are pulled out. In essence this is a book of ghost stories. The Slade House of the title did once exist but has since been demolished and built over, but once every nine years - relating […]
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