reading archive

A bonfire at Greek Easter in a Cretan mountain village at night, with flames reaching up to the height of 3 to 4 people.

I’ve never tracked my reading before. A couple of years ago I started piling up books I’d read on one particular shelf, so at least I knew I’d read them. But now I have this, so I’ll archive my reading here, starting June 2022, with links to any thoughts I record about them.

June 2022

 
[NB Apr ’23: I put ‘Recent’ in the header of this post. And that’s starting to look defunct, even from the relative perspective of last summer. Might have to delete. Probably won’t.]
 
  • Valzhyna Mort, Music for the Dead and Resurrected
  • Vasiliki Albedo, Fire in the Oubliette
  • JP Seabright & Kinneson Lalor, Machinations
  • RC Sheriff, The Hopkins Manuscript
  • Paul Stanbridge, My Mind to me a Kingdom Is
  • Marie Darrieussecq, Pig Tales
  • josie sparrow, a flower-dream beyond this world.
  • Patrick Gann w/josie sparrow and Tom Gann, antiphonics action
  • Alexandra Melville, how small we are, how little we know.
  • Gemma Seltzer, Ways of Living
  • Stratis Doukas, A Prisoner of War’s Story
  • Shehzar Doja, Let Us (or the Invocation of Smoke)
  • Bethany Mitchell, Shingle


June 2023

  • Joel Lane, The Witnesses Are Gone
  • Nazneen Ahmed Pathak, City of Stolen Magic
  • Jeff Noon, Vurt
  • Christopher Josiffe, Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose
  • David Caddy, Interiors and other poems
  • Oli Hazzard, Lorem Ipsum
  • Michael McKimm, Because we could not dance at the wedding
  • Jonathan Catherall, A Setting in the Flesh
  • Astrid Alben, Plainspeak
  • Charlie Baylis, a fondness for the colour green
  • Yismake Worku, The Lost Spell
  • The Book of Penteract, ed. Anthony Etherin and Clara Daneri
  • Will Alexander, Refractive Africa
  •  Emmanuel Roïdes, Pope Joan
  • Steve Ely, Lives of British Shrews
  • Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
  • Science Poems, ed. Anthony Etherin and Clara Daneri
  • Iphgenia Baal, Man Hating Psycho
  • Rupert Loydell, Preloved Metaphors
  • Jack Solloway, Seriously
  • Gustave Kahn, The Solar Circus (trans. Sam Kunkel)
  • UC Villagos, Collected Experimentalism 2005-2008
  • Ivan Vladislavić, The Exploded View
  • Sam J Grudgings, The Nation’s Saddest Love Poems
  • JR Carpenter, City of Marvels
  • Katrina Porteous, Two Countries
  • Iestyn Tyne, Unspecified Space | Stafelloedd Amhenodol
  • Edward Doegar, sonnets
  • Michèle Finck, Scansion of the Dark, trans. Anthony Rudolf
  • Vermis, ed. Michele Nitri (I feel I should add ‘Artwork by Plastiboo’, not sure of the convention because I’m not sure *what this is*)
  • Wendy Allen, Plastic Tubed Little Bird
  • Nikki Dudley, Erode with Me
  • Tom Branfoot, boar
  • Dastram / Delirium: Selected Poems of Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, versioned by Taylor Strickland
  • Walter Mosley, Gone Fishin’
  • Extra Teeth #8
  • Susanne Wedlich, Slime: A Natural History (trans. Ayça Türkoğlu)
  • Ian Macartney, Shale Bings
  • Stefan Zweig, Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman
  • Sven Holm, Termush
  • Tamiko Dooley, Seasons of Love Around the Rising Sun
  • J.O.Morgan, Pupa
  • Christopher Arksey, Variety Turns
  • Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace
  • Keith  Ridgway, A Shock
  • Genevieve Carver, Landsick
  • Will Eaves, Styx
  • Cliff McNish, The Periphery
  • DM Thomas, Imber
  • DF Lewis, The Birthday Presence
  • Dominic Hand, The Data Harvest
  • Sarah Levine, Treasure Island!!!


June 2024 (ok, I deleted ‘recent’ from the post title)

  • Yanita Georgieva, Small Undetectable Thefts
  • Robert Coover, A Night at the Movies; Or, You Must Remember This
  • Banana Yoshimoto, asleep, trans. Michael Emmerich
  • Prototype magazine #6
  • Cole Swensen, And And And
  • Gareth E Rees, Terminal Zones
  • Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979
  • Joe Dunthorne, O Positive
  • John Christopher, The Possessors
    Héloïse Satgé, Rein It In
  • Prototype magazine #6
  • Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, rivering
  • Naush Sabah, Litanies
  • Sasja Janssen, Virgula, trans. Michele Hutchison
  • Darren Freebury-Jones, Rambling
  • Ryan Norman, Tonight I Want to Live and
  • Victor Tapner, Plainsong
  • Tiffany Anne Tondut, Wanted
  • Thomas M. Disch, 334
  • Henry Dimbleby with Jemima Lewis, Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape