PROSPERO'S DEAD
At the end of Shakespeares’s swan song ‘The Tempest’, moon-calf and monster Caliban is left on the beach unclad, unhinged and alone. Five years later in Milan, his old master – magician, magus and manipulator Prospero – reaches the end of his days. His passing triggers a new storm, a fresh cosmic disturbance that brings…
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Some tall tales Elemental, pagan, earth and water and mud and blood But they keep breaking down Fracturing narratives, disappearing down theatrical plugholes Why does it keep breaking? Will they ever finish one of these things? “I’m so mad … I wanna see somebody cry”
THE GINGERBREAD SUN
I’m quarter gone … I’m half gone … I’m three-quarters gone … I’m all gone! 1523 – Nicolaus Copernicus proposes one of the first heliocentric models of the solar system, having realised that we go round the light rather than the light going round us 1723 – A small confectionary-based being leaps from a confined…