He's also written in the LRB about photographs he's taken of the East
edges of London before they disappear.
I wondered why a lot of poetry projects were popping up around that
area. If you read that piece, it's the lottery money feeding the
art-beast. Sort of like archeologists documenting the site before
it's concreted over. I'm a bit ambivalent about. Glad some money is
going poesy's way but not so happy about why. I'd prefer the wild bits
to remain wild.
Roger
On 8/22/08, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Brilliant. Iain Sinclair.
> An excerpt:
> The scam of scams was always the Olympics: Berlin in 1936 to Beijing in
> 2008. Engines of regeneration. Orgies of lachrymose nationalism. War by
> other means. Warrior-athletes watched, from behind dark glasses, by men in
> suits and uniforms. The pharmaceutical frontline. Rogue Californian chemists
> running their eye-popping, vein-clustered, vest-stripping robots against
> degendered state laboratory freaks. Bearded ladies and teenage girls who
> never have periods. Medals returned by disgraced drug cheats to be passed on
> to others who weren't caught, that time. The Millennium Dome fiasco was a
> low-rent rehearsal. The holy grail for blue-sky thinkers was the
> sport-transcends-politics Olympiad, the five-hooped golden handcuffs, the
> smoke rings behind which deals could be done for casinos and malls: with
> corporate sponsorship, flag-waving and infinitely elastic budgets (any
> challenge an act of naysaying treason).
>
> 2008/8/22 Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
> > http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n12/sinc01_.html
> >
> > The razing of East London by Ian MacEwan.
> >
> > --
> > My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> > "I began to warm and chill
> > to objects and their fields"
> > Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
> >
>
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My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
"I began to warm and chill
to objects and their fields"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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