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Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6687-4647

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

link to interview with China Miéville

inside the traditional New Zealand family, and outside the traditional New Zealand family, in the wider economy

requiescat in pace et in amore Ralph Hotere (11 August 1931 – 24 February 2013)