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Weekend in the capital

PoetryI’m 65 per cent more likely to be myself here in the capital of same-sex coupledom it’s true I like to button up but every move is...

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Non-fictionOver lunch with the international art auctioneer, I told him the art dealer – a mutual acquaintance – said she would ‘support’ my work at auction. She explained that if an artwork didn’t receive enough bids during an auction, she would bid to buy it for a higher amount. Then there would be a public record of my work being sold for the value assigned by her, which she would show people when reselling it privately.

No name for the country

Non-fictionFor the past thirty-odd years, Hideo has worked exclusively in Japanese, publishing several novels and collections of criticism and essays. Why Japanese? is a question he is often asked. It harbours a kind of suspicion: why would a native speaker of the English language, the language of power and prestige and capital ... give it all up in favour of a comparatively minor language, a marked and ethnicised tongue?

Self-portrait in Joy Hester pocket mirror

Poetry All hail my inner bones, things have been troped yet now heat up. Being Bowie gone to Berlin, genuinely out of ideas and summoning Brian Eno wearing...