Paul Tickell presents Christie Malry’s Own Double Entry
Tickets Available £15 13 October 2017 at 7 p.m. London Review Bookshop Join the London Review Bookshop for a screening of Christie Malry’s Own Double Entry, presented by director Paul Tickell. Adapted from the angry novel by experimental novelist BS Johnson, this is an ambitious attempt to capture on film a particularly English strain of […]
Two Views of a Prose Poem
The collage was prompted by a desire to see at a glance the mirrored symmetry I found in Simic’s prose poem, and I arranged some of Simic’s text atop a page from a discarded auction catalogue on which were pictured a pair of mirrors. I thought, afterward, of the sculptor Christopher Wilmarth’s statement “If [art’s] not magic, it’s merchandise.” Unblemished by its brush with stuff so blatantly for sale to the highest bidder, the magic of Simic’s prose poem prevails, and the dead auction lot gets a new life to boot.
Carrie Cooperider pays close attention to Charles Simic.