I wanted to finish a collection of poems dealing with consciousness and time, which I tried to imagine through the perspective of Buddhism and quantum physics. Eternal consciousness (one that survives the disintegration of the I) andinfinite time (which can only...
Excerpted from “The Carnivorous City”, a novel in progress. The office was off Olowu street, in a big two storey building that was a riotous warren of offices. It was the sort of building that made Lagos what it is; a city bursting at the seams with people. The...
I have an idyllic life for a writer, with the man I love on a remote Cornish farm, so my fellowship seemed under-deserved. I likened the process of moving my writing base from Land’s End to Civitella to moving apartments in Heaven. What I hadn’t reckoned on was the...
Written at Civitella, May/June 2008 DEJA VU 1 The young couple is visiting the Amusement Park. She wants to get into the Space Vehicle, a dark roller coaster that goes through the interstellar void at tremendous speed. He does not want to, he´s afraid. They quarrel...
