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Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.

Hey ancestor!

Hey ancestor, you talking to me? Country time everyday. I know, I know, but wouldn’t you know it, it’s the 26th...

Bards in white flannels

Here’s to those postcolonial Bards in white flannels wielding the willow like their consonants and vowels, spicing the English tongue with...

Avocado

For Gordon Rohlehr   i woke one morning and the Caribbean was gone. She’d definitely been there the night before, i’d heard...

I am building a wall

when they ask me what i’m doingat the end of this long campaignwhen they ask which course i’m pursuingthese...

Europe, June 2016

The flight path on the screenacross the aisle is a green linejoining the dots from Manchesterthrough Amsterdam, Bucharest,now Istanbul,...

Content farms

Search optimisation is the bronzewing’s nemesis or indifference if it’s your attention it wants, though it’s not; link farming from Russian...

Ordinary things

I was out walking yesterday or perhaps it was todaywhen a man young as a son spoke under his...

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