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Maesteg, Metcalfe Street, September 1890
Dad is lain out in the parlour and the curtains have been shut. He looks like he is sleeping, in the one good suit he had. I know he is not because all the family and their families’ family are here squashed into this dark little cottage to pay respects, and I have been sent…
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How Ulysses Made 4’33’’
I’ve been writing recently a chapter on John Cage, ecopoetics, and mushrooms. At the same time, I’ve been allowed the fortunate position of supervising a dissertation student who is writing about narrative strategies in modernist and contemporary fiction, which will include a study of James Joyce’s Ulysses—and so, alongside my Cage research, I have been…

