Simon Taylor
Piotr Vedenisov photographs Vera Kozakov wearing folk dress in 1914
there are still directors
seeing Barney’s wonderful one-man show …Him last night …
…made me want to write a play again. Is this wrong? I get the feeling something is being left unsaid. And listening to This Mortal Coil today (“Holocaust”) gave me an inkling of what it is, and where there is space in the market. Send me ideas, donations, commissions.
R.I.P. Hugo Chavez, July 28 1954 to March 5 2013
“Gothic represents a ruined or fractured realism, excessive because its desire carries it beyond the ego and social convention; postmodern horror belongs to an epoch in which horror itself has become conventional, and so must be suitably self-ironising. I
Against the Kingdom (c. 1995)
At the wind drop,
tidal mangrove by the motorway,
the masts and pylons,
these are the spires of the West in a smoke-blue sky
and I was going to speak again
against the kingdom, a stifling obloquy
and commiserate the status quo,
Henderson in the valley, the road ghost and