Writer and critic. Books on intoxicants, emotions, senses, Adorno, chillies, disorder, love... everything I'll need for the afterlife
Torquay, England
Joined August 2011
- Tweets7.5K
- Following20
- Followers383
- Likes1.3K
Stuart Walton retweeted
"Her writing is spare but lingering in its suggestiveness, in the exorbitant honesty of its emotional repertoire."
@StuartWalton1 on Galia Admoni's poetry collection, SOMEBODY SHOULD HAVE PRESSED RECORD
review31.co.uk/article/view/…
Stuart Walton retweeted
"Those looking for poetic diction will be thinly sated... What there is instead is a relentless exercise in auto-therapy, working through, stumbling on the occasional breakthrough."
@StuartWalton1 on Joe Carrick-Varty's BEFORE VIOLENCE (@Carcanet)
review31.co.uk/article/view/…
The changing face of alcohol reflected in self-portraits with wine worldoffinewine.com/news-fea…
Stuart Walton retweeted
"Throughout the book, Manning emphasises the collectivity to which pop has consistently appealed ever since it turned tribal in the early 1950s."
@StuartWalton1 on Toby Manning's MIXING POP AND POLITICS
review31.co.uk/article/view/…
Considering pop history from the Marxist viewpoint review31.co.uk/article/view/…
Stuart Walton retweeted
🍷 Agency author Stuart Walton explores how early cinema 🎬, like the Lumière brothers’ Partie de Cartes, highlights the deep-rooted significance of wine in French culture.
Read more: worldoffinewine.com/news-fea…
@worldoffinewine @StuartWalton1 #LumièreBrothers
Stuart Walton retweeted
"Dave Win in his seventies sounds much the same as he did when he was at Bampton School, with the same physical desires, the same aesthetic proclivities..."
@StuartWalton1 on Alan Hollinghust's OUR EVENINGS
review31.co.uk/article/view/…
The Hong Kong Review of Books has published a review of my recent book, Sleepless Nights, a critical study of love and romance hkrbooks.com/2024/11/11/slee…
Not quite in time to give the Nobel committee the nudge I'd hoped, but here anyway is my review of Bei Dao's momentous new poetry volume, Sidetracks hkrbooks.com/2024/10/31/side…
Stuart Walton retweeted
"An ideology of self-discovery came into being to justify them, as did a litany of cautionary tales."
@StuartWalton1 reviews Erika Dyck's PSYCHEDELICS: A VISUAL ODYSSEY and Aidan Lyon's PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE: REVEALING THE MIND
review31.co.uk/essay/view/12…
My review of Rory Waterman's latest collection from @carcanet hkrbooks.com/2024/06/10/come…
Stuart Walton retweeted
"What emerges is... a conception of criticism that is strikingly conservative in its social hopes & expectations."
@StuartWalton1 on Michel Chaouli's SOMETHING SPEAKS TO ME: WHERE CRITICISM BEGINS
review31.co.uk/article/view/…
In time to come, #WorldBookDayUK, rather than celebrating literary works, will be the occasion for building ritualistic bonfires of them ~ theguardian.com/books/2024/m…
No more photos of stacks of books, please, or assiduously copied-out quotes. It's a good moment to start thinking for yourself ~
Banning Christmas in the name of piety. Could it be worth another go? worldoffinewine.com/news-fea…
