Breyten Breytenbach: Cosmopolitan anarchist from the Boland

From Mail & Guardian
November 28, 2024

I received the news that Breyten Breytenbach had died on Sunday. That evening we drove up from Dikeni (Alice), where we live, to Hogsback. With me were my wife Irma and our friend Vangile, on a visit from Tshwane.

On our way up the Amathole Mountains, we listened to Breytenbach’s spoken-word album Lady One. His Buddhist chants sounded as if they somehow belonged to the green hills and villages of the Eastern Cape.

Lindsann on In the Digital Age: Poetic Reason as an Alternative

From Fifth Estate #415, Summer 2024

a review of Poetic Reason in the Age of Digital Control by Jesús Sepúlveda. Bad Idea Publishing, 2023

Jesús Sepúlveda’s Poetic Reason in the Age of Digital Control addresses some of today’s most pressing threats and sketches out some promising ideas of a strategy in response, which will hopefully be elaborated in future works.

Radon Journal Issue 8 is now live!

From Radon Journal | Anarchist Sci-Fi

Read the latest emerging talent in anarchist science fiction.

In print for the first time!

These 20 stories will enthrall you and bring up a black mirror to modern capitalist society. We're be bringing you 10 short stories and 10 poems that each captivate, challenge, and course through your mind at night, long after you're done reading. The perfect mix of subversive and emotional.

We bid farewell to our friend and comrade H.P. Sophia

From Athens Indymedia, August 12, 2024

We bid farewell to our friend and comrade H.P. Sophia on Tuesday, August 13, at the Schistos Municipal Cemetery at 10:45 a.m.

H.P. Sophia was born in Domvrena, Boeotia in 1965 and lived in Athens since 1980. The circles in which he moved were within the anarchist space, the geometry of the Metropolis, the pathos of words, and the colors of his beloved Domvrena. Have a good journey Bampi!

John Burnside, vivid poet & memoirist – obituary

From The Telegraph
June 4, 2024

Burnside’s memoirs recall his drunken father throwing his sister down the stairs and burning his teddy bear, yet his poems were lyrical

In later life, despite having some claims to respectability as a garlanded poet and an academic – from 2009 he was Professor of Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews – Burnside remained a committed anarchist. His novel Glister, he noted, featured, as a representative of capitalism, “a one-dimensional man who only cared about money. Some people criticised me. And then 2008 happened. Sorry, but I rest my case.”

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