@harmlessfires

Poet and critic. Work: @adroitjournal @thelondonmag @aeon @xraylitmag @rphilos @hobartpulp @Poetry_London @thedrift_mag @LAReviewofBooks @havehadhavehad +

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Delighted to have this piece up with @mid_theory looking at contemporary boredom & White Lotus 🪷
Mid Theory Collective@mid_theory24 Jul 2025
For MTC, @harmlessfires thinks about boredom's potential both narratologically and politically. "Boredom is a universal motor and product of social being in capitalism, yet its formal make-up contains a (negatively felt) kernel of the future." mid-theory.com/2025/07/24/st…

Story Bored

What happens if we are never bored? Boredom is a thoroughly modern feeling; or rather, one etymologically contiguous with modernity. The noun did not enter the language until the middle of the nine…

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'How's your year going?'
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Eduard Antoniu@EditwitOct 19
"Little by little, the night comes around".
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'Little by little, we're being replaced by chains of uninterrupted images. Enslaving one another. Each image in its place. As are we, each in our place.' Ici et ailleurs, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville (1976)
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'Little by little, we're being replaced by chains of uninterrupted images. Enslaving one another. Each image in its place. As are we, each in our place.' Ici et ailleurs, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville (1976)
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The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedThePCC
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Daniel Fraser@harmlessfiresAug 4
My review of Karen Solie's 'Wellwater' in the Harvard Review: harvardreview.org/book-revie…

Wellwater

In Karen Solie’s poetry, contamination is both a thematic and formal principle. Her poems mix colloquial, standard, and technical speech elements, brand names and found material, the language of a...

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Daniel Fraser@harmlessfiresOct 14
'Rat', one of 3 poems of mine in the new issue of @ColumbiaReview: thecolumbiareview.org/poetry…
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'Rat', one of 3 poems of mine in the new issue of @ColumbiaReview: thecolumbiareview.org/poetry…
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Andrew Scott delivers this speech too slowly; I know some viewers will hate the way he breaks up the verse. AND YET even in spite of that I think this is the best delivery of this soliloquy I’ve ever seen. He makes it sound like it’s not a portentous speech everyone already knows but a morally serious real-time deliberation, by a highly intelligent person in extreme pain, considering what it would mean to end his own life.
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London hauling 📚
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Melissa@magistrabeckOct 8
My interview with Anne Carson from a few years back. So thrilled she won the Nobel! thebookbindersdaughter.com/2…

My Pythian Interview with Anne Carson

The ancient Greek god Apollo, in addition to being associated with the sun, healing, and music, communicated Zeus’s will through a series of arcane messages at his prophetic shrine in Delphi. Betwe…

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Steve Mitchelmore@TwitchelmoreOct 7
Only one cover matches the edition I read, and the cover does seem important to the experience.
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Brilliant list. Discovering 'Cuadecuc Vampir' was amazing on its own.
Alex F 🇵🇸@alexcfieldsOct 3
It’s that time of year (the best time of year) notreconciled.substack.com/p…
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Tried not to think too much. Could have been 50 or 60 other choices.
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Congrats to Socrates contributor Lisa Robertson. A rave by Ange Mlinko in NYRB. Socrates published an excerpt of the book: socratesonthebeach.com/lisa-…
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No one is a hero to their book cover designer
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Finally got my own monument. Thanks to @corkcitylibrary & Poetry in the Park. #CorkCityLibraries #CreativeIreland
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*Hyacinth Bucket voice*: "It's conserva-toir".
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The Yale Review@yalereviewSep 16
Annie Dillard has died. In our Summer 1988 Issue, she wrote about the "surprising letters" and gifts that fans and readers sent her over the years—a fossil fish, a marriage proposal, a check for $2.50, and, again and again, questions about God. yalereview.org/article/annie…

Annie Dillard: "Making Contact"

The author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek shares the most surprising letters sent by her readers.

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Alina Stefanescu@alinerSep 16
May those for whom Annie Dillard is beloved find her absent presence in the coming days.
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Steve Mitchelmore@TwitchelmoreSep 13
Here's one of best.
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some of the greatest opening lines in literature
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