’It’s almost impossible to say why certain music attracts me, or interests me, and other things leave me cold. The process of criticism is heavily dependent on a rationalisation of subjectivity. As a critic, you can spend your life prioritising your own tastes with increasingly elaborate intellectual justifications that disallow any alternatives’. That’s David Toop, … Continue reading ’It persists as anomaly, as conscience, as critique and as refuge’
Tag: Kay Ryan
‘It’s only when you talk to yourself that they prick up their ears’
I like anthologies - to borrow or to buy cheaply, not often to keep. There are too many poets that don’t (in the end, after a few re-readings) interest me. But how else to find out what’s out there, what’s being written? And these are the anthologies I like best: the annual volumes of The … Continue reading ‘It’s only when you talk to yourself that they prick up their ears’

