Neil Davie: ‘It was this combination of omniscient surveillance and unquestioning submission that made the Panopticon such a powerful symbol in the hands of Michel Foucault; a place where the prisoner “is seen, but he does not see; he is the object of information, never a subject in communication.”’
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About the Trollope Prize.
A Memorial Dossier honoring Yves Bonnefoy with contributions from Hoyt Rogers and Anthony Rudolf | Nine tiny fictions by Ian Seed | Peter Riley reviews Pierre Reverdy’s ‘non-novel’
Alan Wall on Modernist poetics | Francis Gribble recounts Arthur Rimbaud’s anti-poetic life | F. S. Flint’s History of Imagism | Brent Ranalli continues his argument for ‘warrior co-ops’ | Fiction by David Rea: ‘The Vanishing’ | Neil Davie: Jeremy Bentham’s Googlish Panopticon | May Sinclair discovers ‘Imagism at its perfection’ in the poetry of ‘H.D.’ | Orson Welles’s post-war report from 1951: Thoughts on Germany | Robert Saxton’s panoptic, nonlinear prose poem: Six-Way Mirror | Peter Riley reviews the poetry of Angela Leighton and Geraldine Monk | D.H. Lawrence: ‘Things’ | Steve Ely: Æcerbot | James Gallant goes to the funeral of Isaac Albéniz | From Stephen Wade’s dossier of literary rejections, part 6: Patrons and toadying | New work by Maurice Scully: Parabola | Peter Riley reviews two Irish poets: Karl O’Hanlon and Daragh Breen | The More Things Change, a very-very short story by Michael Buckingham Gray | Twelve prose poems by Monk Gibbon | Paul Hyacinthe Loyson’s war poem, A Scrap of Paper, twice translated by JG Frazer and Edward Brabrook | Oswald Sickert’s Letters on Japanese Nō theatre | Paul Scott Derrick travels through Richard Berengarten’s many changes | Alan Wall’s poetic inquiry into Fetishes | Anthony Howell asks, What are perversions? | Two poems from ‘Poems without Irony’ by Alex Wong | H. A. Willis: The parallel lives of Bruno Schulz and Stepan Bandera | James Gallant: Coleridge, poetry and the ‘rage for disorder’ | A new translation of Rilke, by Harry Guest | Richard Jensen: Michelson, Morley and the End of Certainty | George Saintsbury profiles Ernest Renan | Stephen Wade: Literary rejection before the invention of slips | Hi-ho: The Work Programme by Ian Bourn | James Gallant: Variations on a theme by Otto Rank | Lawrence Markert: Four ‘ad-libs’ for John Berryman | Gilbert Thomas on Shelley, the ‘divine poet’ | Five poems by Gëzim Hajdari, translated by Ian Seed | A cluster of Vignettes by Iain Britton | A Partita for solo violin by Ruby Turok-Squire | The ‘awkwardness’ of Denise Riley, a review by Peter Riley | Two Vilanelles by Zainab Ismail | Hefted, a prose-poetry ag-drama by Gary Evans | For more, please consult the partial archive.
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Philosophy and the public impact.
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Ernest Renan.
George Saintsbury: ‘[Renan’s]] gospel may certainly be said to be a vague gospel, and the enemy may contend that Morgane la Fée is architect and clerk of the works at the buildings which he so industriously edifies with graceful words and, at the same time, with a vast quantity of solid learning. But of his literary skill there can be no question, and scarcely less of the admirable character of his intentions.’