Showing posts with label Literary Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literary Review. Show all posts

Tuesday, 9 December 2014

BS Detector

Like abstract painting... abstract poetry extended the range over which incompetence would fail to declare itself.
- Clive James, Poetry Notebook, 2006-2014 (in Literary Review December 2014/January 2015)

Friday, 5 December 2014

Bad Sex - with Ben Okri


A writer writes what they write and that’s all there is to it.
- the former Booker-winner 'graciously' responds to the announcement of his victory

(Congrats due to his editor and his publicist for their significantly better efforts.)

Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Not from Blackadder(?) - 1

His mother was a religiously minded Andalusian cleaning lady called Mercedes...
- Nicholas Rankin, in Literary Review

Friday, 29 November 2013

#BadSex

His mind... will never be able to think of an ear in the same way again.
- Hunting for Dirty Books, an entertaining short film from the team behind the Bad Sex Award.