Rilke
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Doorways to Hell
In a Bloomsbury bookshop last October, two days after the death of a close friend, I found myself in the store’s horror section. On a whim I bought a collection of disturbing short stories by Robert Aickman called Compulsory Games. Only on the train home did it occur to me that choosing to read horror…
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Between beauty and terror
Thus the blue hour comes by Tess Jolly, Indigo Dreams Publishing I love Tess Jolly’s poems, and I posted my look at her first collection Touchpapers here. Her latest, Thus the blue hour comes from Indigo Pamphlets confirmed the promise of her first pamphlet with what is, in my view, a beautifully coherent and even stronger collection.…
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The beginning of terror
Having an imagination is useful in the work I do. By an imagination I mean the part of the mind that allows me, and everyone else, to form ideas, images and concepts about things that are not right there under my nose. The imagination is morally neutral. As well as the enigmatic Mona Lisa, for…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 