Friday, 18 February 2011
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Picadilly Bongo
Jeremy Reed and Marc Almond
The Grid
One of Britain‘s most idiosyncratic writers – also an acclaimed poet – returns with a typically original and erotically charged novel.
Some time in the not-too-distant future London has merged with Tokyo, police use flying cars to catch kamikazee Boeings and Michael Jackson shops incessantly. Amid the chaos two men are called into a hypnotherapy clinic named the Grid to get treatment for AIDS.
They discover that they are the reincarnations of William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, a revelation that leads them to the truth about one of the great literary mysteries of all time, the murder of Kit Marlowe in a Deptford tavern in 1593.
The King Of Carnaby Street
A Life of John Stephens
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This Is How You Disapear
This Is How You Disappear is Jeremy Reed's most autobiographical book to date, and one in which he celebrates the dead and missing friends who were the formative and enduring influences on his life as a poet.
Using the elegy to imaginatively recreate the often extraordinary individual characteristics of his subjects, Reed's personal book of the dead is one that burns with his customary dynamic for dazzling imagery, glows with compassion for the suffering, and sparkles with a visual retrieval of detail so acute it hurts.
With the title taken from the first line of a Scott Walker song, 'Rawhide', This Is How You Disappear is elegiac poetry at its most brilliant.
Cover image by Luka Young
Published 15th October 2009
West End Survival Kit
Jeremy Reed is one of Britain’s most talented and highly celebrated poets, called by J.G. Ballard ‘the most original poet writing today’, as well as an acclaimed novelist and biographer intent on rehabilitating neglected greats into his individual pantheon of heroes.
The author of more than thirty books fuelled by unstoppable imaginative thrust, his many literary awards include the Gregory Award and the Somerset Maugham Award for poetry.
His recent books include an epic poem on Elvis Presley Heartbreak Hotel (Orion 2002), a book-length poem on 1960s rock culture Orange Sunshine (SAF 2006), the collections Duck and Sally Inside (Enitharmon 2004) and This Is How You Disappear (Enitharmon 2007), a novel about Christopher Marlowe The Grid (Peter Owen 2008), and his biography of the heroin addicted novelist Anna Kavan A Stranger On Earth (Peter Owen 2006).
Jeremy Reed Lecture
And The Stars Were Shining: the Glitter and Menthol Cool of John Ashbery’s Poetry
JEREMY REED
Monday 6 December
Chair Prof. Grevel Lindop
Venue The Royal Asiatic Society
Doors open at 6.30pm Lecture begins promptly at 7pm Concludes 8.30pm
Admission £5 or £3.50 Members of the Temenos Academy/Concessions
Daniel Radcliffe Lands Leading Role In ‘The Amateur Photographer’ » MTV Movies Blog
Even though "Harry Potter" has finally wrapped as a whole, Daniel Radcliffe is keeping himself busy. The British actor is heading to Broadway in the musical "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" in a couple of months and was recently filming the thriller "The Woman In Black."
Now, he has a new indie project on his plate: according to Variety, Radcliffe will star in the indie comedy "The Amateur Photographer." Christopher Monger, who wrote the screenplay and the novel that the film is based on, will direct the picture. Monger is best known for his screenplay for HBO's "Temple Grandin," which has won just about every prestigious award a TV film can win since its release.
The film marks another period piece for Radcliffe, though this one is set in the 1970s instead of the late 19th century like "The Woman In Black." However, it's nice to see the former boy who lived going the indie route after spending the majority of his career starring in a blockbuster franchise. Clearly, Radcliffe likes to keep things fresh.
As for the plot, "The Amateur Photographer" follows a young man who discovers his passion for photography after the citizens of a sleepy New England mill town ask him to photograph their most intimate moments. According to Variety, he "battles local authorities while bringing a bit of a velvet revolution to the town."
It sounds like the most down-to-earth project Radcliffe has attached himself to so far, which is an exciting prospect for "Harry Potter" fans. If all goes well, "The Amateur Photographer" could give audiences a chance to see how he performs onscreen as an actor without the magic and mystery he's best known for -- and our guess is he will succeed, without really trying.
Is this a film you're looking forward to seeing? Are you glad Radcliffe has graduated past "Potter" into different types of films? Tell us what you think in the comments section and on Twitter!
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Photographer searched in Stratford ‘terrorist’ drama news - Amateur Photographer - news, camera reviews, lens reviews, camera equipment guides, photography courses, competitions, photography forums
Police officers stopped and searched an amateur photographer in East London under the mistaken belief that he was a terrorist, New Scotland Yard has confirmed.The student, who does not want to be named, said he was stopped under Section 43 of the Terrorism Act, a law which can only be enforced if a police officer 'reasonably suspects' a person to be a terrorist.
'I had recently got my first DSLR and on a sunny day in East London I went to the end of my street to photograph gulls that were flying around,' said the photo enthusiast who lives in Stratford E15.
'Out of nowhere a few undercover men came to me and asked what I was photographing and I immediately showed them my pictures of the birds.
'They told me it was because there was a school across the road and I might be considered to be a terrorist because I was taking pictures near the school and that if I was a bird watcher I should try going to the countryside.'
Officers searched the would-be photographer before realising that he did not pose a threat and let him go.
'I must admit [the officers] were OK in their treatment but the incident has scared me off taking my camera out and taking pictures,' said the man who left the UK for a week's holiday in Ireland shortly afterwards.
'As an international student, from an under-developed country, who knows what hell may break loose if I'm seen taking pictures again?'
Section 43 of the Terrorism Act is a more clearly defined anti-terror law than the recently-scrapped Section 44 which allowed police to stop and search someone without reasonable grounds for suspicion.
Section 43 states: 'A constable may stop and search a person whom he reasonably suspects to be a terrorist to discover whether he has in his possession anything which may constitute evidence that he is a terrorist.'