http://textualities.net Online Literary Magazine Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:16:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to the Pythagoreans and the Hebrew cabalists, the essential mysteries of life and creation may be revealed through the decoding of numbers. Brian McCabe's new collection, Zero, is devoted to the poetics of numbers and numerological qualities, even including shape, colour, and taste. Intertwining literature and mathematics - ostensibly ... http://textualities.net/jessica-aliaga-lavrijsen/fetish-of-ciphers-brian-mccabes-zero/ Jaipur 2009 A man sits at his table i da street, lifts a haevy iron fae a sunbaked tile. Lasses crubbit in a rickshaa, der saris eclipse da bougainvillea. I da haert o a roondaboot, twartree tents; women hing oot washin, day laaberers. A midder traivels wi her bairns, peeriewyes; a airm o a tree balanced apön her ... http://textualities.net/christine-de-luca/aa-but-carbon-neutral/ Shetland and Rajastan  Da first notes A göd paet bank is een                                A göd hoose has wi deep moor, a third paet                           aroond da door,   plenty blue at da boddom,                           twartree buffalo nae horse-fleysh ta speak o,                       for lassi, for mylk a dry hill for kerryin,                                       an for sharn.  Forbye, an a loch tae guddle in.                                dey'll ... http://textualities.net/christine-de-luca/fire-sang-cycle/ This is the first piece of sustained writing I have attempted in a very long time. It all started last summer, with our golden retriever's belly swelling up - a phantom pregnancy, the vet said. Then there was the smell of rotting wood in our toilet - a leaking joint along ... http://textualities.net/regi-claire/the-story-behind-fighting-it/                   It all started fairly well for me that day: Akber praised me for my loyalty, my quiet step; he was tired from audiences with nobles. The sun dropped quickly over Fatehpur Sikri, its sandstone pinker in the evening light. A slight breeze riffled flowers and pools. Akber had started his evening work: the getting of a son.  ... http://textualities.net/christine-de-luca/being-a-eunuch-at-akbers-court/ Whoever is in charge of the public gardens Has turned up the earth For spring's upheaval. Entrenched clods, now exposed to breezy brightness, Crust in the fresh air, becoming hard through. Those small spindle legged creatures With articulated shells That had thrived in the moist dark Scurry on the surface, smaller than the eye can tell. They scrimmage, struck ... http://textualities.net/kate-charles/itch/ I've heard your photographs described as intergalactic landscapes. I used to imagine becoming a space traveller. As it turns out I have an incredible fear of flying, which is a bit of an impediment to becoming an astronaut. But in my work I'm always trying to find these imaginary landscapes ... http://textualities.net/jennie-renton/simon-nicholas-white-landscape-and-dreams/ A poster advertising the Egon Schiele exhibition displays one of his self-portraits. The colours and the shapes look out of place among Vienna's baroque architecture. It looks ugly that's what I thought.  But the original in the Leopold Museum has a very different effect. It's something to do with the ... http://textualities.net/morelle-smith/egon-schieles-paintings-and-viennas-evening-streets/ Tessa Ransford is a prolific poet and her work reflects the wide range of her interests and experience. Her poetry brims with an intellectual energy and the wisdom of feeling. Geographically, we travel from Japan, India and Pakistan through Europe via Germany and France, to Scotland. There are many references ... http://textualities.net/morelle-smith/the-metaphysical-in-tessa-ransfords-poetry/ Robert Louis Abrahamson has recorded dramatised versions of Robert Louis Stevenson's Fables.  Here he reads 'The Sick Man and the Fireman': [flashvideo filename="/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/the-sick-man.mp3" /] Listen to Robert Louis Abrahamson in Evening under Lamplight featuring readings of poems and stories, comment and information, with musical interludes: http://lamplight.209radio.co.uk Abrahamson's CD Journey Through The Seasons is ... http://textualities.net/robert-louis-abrahamson/rls-fable-reading/