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Jenny Diski, writer. 8 July 1947 – 28 April 2016

Our dear friend Jenny died early this morning. My thoughts are with her family, and particularly with Ian.

For twenty seven years the people of Liverpool fought for what was right, and for the truth of what happened at Hillsborough Stadium to cause the deaths of 96 football supporters to be widely known and acknowledged. Today they were vindicated, rising above the slime of The Sun newspaper and the scum of the South Yorkshire Police Force to see the essential generosity, courage and nobility of their lost family members and friends clearly observed.

Música De Pito Y Corneta [Tzeltales De Tenajapa] Miguel Guzmán Tzurin, Alonso Guzmán Tzurin INAH Vol.4 Música Indígena De Los Altos De Chiapas
Donald Trump & Greed in America Tupac 1992 Interview
Totalna revolucija Pankrti Zbrana dela 1977-1988
La Yerbabuena (Chilena) Música de la Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca Fonoteca del Inah 21
Wearing The Robes Of Bible Black Giant Sand The Love Songs
The Hour is Thin Brian Eno The Ship
The Pyre Of Angus Was In Kathmandu Tony Conrad with Faust Outside The Dream Syndicate
Generique (Miles Davis) Nils Frahm Late Night Tales: Nils Frahm
El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido Inti-Illimani La Nueva Cancion Chilena

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David Ball, Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature at Smith College, discusses his acclaimed translation and annotation of Jean Guéhenno’s Diary of the Dark Years, 1940-1944 (Oxford University Press, 2014), at the Lewis Global Studies Center at Smith College. Ball’s is the first ever English translation of this incredible look into life in occupied France.

I found this France 24 documentary (in English) interesting.

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A few of the celebrities and fictional characters gathered to celebrate the Queen’s birthday.

I was in Montreal only once, overnight. March 1970. In my memory it is hilly, grey and drizzly. David Ball and I were there to read in a Poetry Series at Sir George Williams University. The FLQ were active, and over-protective staff advised us not to roam the streets. George Butterick hovers in the memory as does a pair of black leather boots. Those images (plus whatever David recalls) were, I thought, the only traces of the visit. This afternoon an email from Dave Cook included a link from his daughter Lisa (thanks Lisa) in Paris to a fully documented sound archive of the several years of the series. There are many gems among the more than 70 reels of tape. To now I’ve enjoyed hearing John Wiener’s voice from 1966 and listening to Borges read his Dreams and English Literature lecture. An excellent resource. And all before full spectrum surveillance.

This week 60 years ago I was 17 and in hospital awaiting open-heart surgery. I owe that I have a life since then and thus a memory of Montreal to two men. The cardiologist Paul Wood and the surgeon Russell Brock. I am still grateful for their intelligence, their skills, their kindness and their openness to me.

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Mr Osborne’s warning comes after a debate in the Commons on Monday on the impact of the 50p hourly increase in the National Living Wage (NLW), said profitable firms trying to “evade the spirit” of the new laws would face government pressure.

“I promise you that we will use the full force of our office, little though it sometimes feels, to put pressure on those companies to live up not only to the legal obligations, which are our job in making legislation in this House, but to their moral obligations, which are the ones that we feel matter a great deal more,” said Conservative minister Nick Boles.

Venezia Undertide 6 (108 copies), Words and Images, edited by Rita degli Esposti, John Gian and Francesco Giusti.

The dead mix with the living in this elegant object made with care.

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The Dream Songs, by John Berryman. Out of print.

My News For You – Irish Poetry 600 – 1200, translated by Geoffrey Squires Shearsman
Another fine book of translations. See also his Hafez.

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end of a trail
d’accord

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Archimedes’ Principle. How many gallons of olive oil does Mrs.Dwight displace?
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Answer: Some are more equal than others.

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Common Sense, by Ted Greenwald. (new edition still as good a read, forty years on.) Wesleyan

Sonnets, by Ian Heames (02 APR 2016) Face Press. (another elegantly produced addition to the opus. information from ijaheamesATgmail.com

The Dirty Dust, by Maírtín Ó Cadhain Yale.
Thanks to whomever had this sent to me.

Diglossic in the Second America, by Quenton Baker Punch Press.

Clutch, by Richard Owens Vigilance Society.(Eclipse Archive is worth a browse).

Romulan Soup Woman (a magazine with some spirit) Damn The Caesars.

Ballads, by Richard Owens Habenicht Press.

Priest, by Andrew Rippeon Punch Press.

In The Square, by Laura Kilbride Punch Press.

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Their dark eyes shall not gaze on our things.

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Just a few family photos.

Dave Morice still going strong
Avanti il Actualismo!

Since I can no longer use my left hand for much; scalpel, paper, glue have had to be replaced by pixel-play.

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How shocking and eye-opening this morning to discover that in this World of Serfs and Barons the latter work hard to keep all their riches.

Such fearless champions of the downtrodden must surely, I thought, have shone their investigating beam elsewhere.

Three years ago today our old and dear friend Peter Gilpin died. Here he is with our grandson Eddie back in sunnier times. Thinking of you today, Gayle. Love and fun, Tom

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Photograph of Michael Myers © Robert Rusk 1976,2016

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