Barry Graham, Scottish Author
cardboard boxes in the rain Tanka Explosion When Silence Fails In Praise of a Cat Snow Haiku The Speed of Light Throwaway How Long
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—Barry Graham
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I'm sad to hear of the sudden death, at age 66, of Marvelous Marvin Hagler (his legal name), undisputed World Middleweight Champion from 1980-87, and, in my opinion, the greatest boxer, pound-for-pound, of all time. He retired when he got robbed by the judges after giving Sugar Ray Leonard a boxing lesson. Later, when Leonard suggested a rematch, Hagler said, “Tell Ray to get a life.”
If there's ever been a better fight than his (almost) three rounds with Thomas Hearns, I've never seen it.
Rest in Power, sir.
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—Barry Graham
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Larry Fondation and I have been inseparable friends for about 25 years now. And, even though he's in Los Angeles, USA, and I'm in Glasgow, Scotland, we were recently spotted together in Paris, France, in L'Ecume des pages bookshop. Fitting, as we met in a bookshop.
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Municipal Dreams by John Boughton
The White Book by Han Kang
Snowden's Box by Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge
No Longer Human by Dazai Osamu (again)
The Merry Muses of Caledonia by Robert Burns
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—Barry Graham
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Glasgow is buried under snow today. It's exactly four years since I arrived back here, leaving the US after more than 20 years.
Last night, from my 10th-floor window, I watched the snow fall, watched some people build a snowman on the football pitch by my block of flats.
snow falling on night of plague building snowman on housing scheme football pitch
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—Barry Graham
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I'm fortunate in that I work at home, so, as the plague worsens and lockdown continues, I don't have to go out, aside from necessary trips to get groceries. While the rules allow us to go outside for exercise, I've stopped doing that, as too many people are acting as though they're desperate to catch, or spread, the plague — not wearing masks, not social distancing, hanging out in groups. Two workers at my local supermarket have died. The walkway by the River Kelvin has been nicknamed The Disease Corridor.
No Maybe a Strange Thing Six Haiku In a Glasgow Street No Order of Things Seven Haiku Cause and Effect Two People Rohatsu Gratitude: Silent Recitation for Falling Asleep
And a short prose piece: Butterflies and Other People
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—Barry Graham
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ddbb by Noda Yuki
Futha by Heilung
Live Ananda by Krishna Das
The Meth Lab by Method Man
Osaka Ramones by Shonen Knife
Live in London by Zeal and Ardor
Laws of Motion by Karine Polwart
Music for Nine Post Cards by Hiroshi Yoshimura
Generation Doom by Otep
Golden Rule by Muriel Grossmann
Inner World by His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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Collected Poems by Norman MacCaig (yet again)
How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm
Long Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Hjorth
Disobey! by Frederic Gros
Into the Woods by Emily Carroll
Venus in the Blind Spot by Junji Ito
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—Barry Graham
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In the summer of 1989, I finished writing my second novel, The Champion's New Clothes. It was a few months before my first, Of Darkness and Light, was published by Bloomsbury. They bought the second one right away, but took almost two years to publish it. Scotland on Sunday called it “entertaining, raw and punkish,” with “scenes of rampant evil.” It soon went out of print, and remained so for more than a decade.
Today, a French translation, Le Champion Nu (The Naked Champion), is published by Tusitala, who also published The Book of Man as Le livre de l'homme, and it has the same translator, Clélia Laventure.
It's a strange and happy feeling to see a book I finished at age 23 published in another language and country 32 years later.
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