About
I started this blog when I archived my old -but since March 2012 rebuilt- website;
Then I got busy laying down a pathway to and from my [new] fruit store still near the Thames in Central London in the form of occasional notes; aromatic, juiced-up, sweet and sharply evocative memorials of future hopes. If I seem lost or confused, please email me at: guy [at] g-m-a [dot] net
p.s. The image in the header is a screen-grab from J-L Godard’s One Plus One, but then you knew that.
Mini Bio: Guy Mannes-Abbott
Writer and critic of things essential, widely travelled in body and mind, speaker of tongues, one-time tutor at Architectural Association and @urbanforester [combining utopian ésprit and taste for the wild]. Father of one.
Recent publications include; ‘Translated By’ [Ed. Arsène-Henry & Basar], an Introduction to Mourid Barghouti’s ‘Midnight and Other Poems’, literary and visual art criticism in The Independent, Bidoun, etc. A beautiful collaboration with Bombay-based collective CAMP, a film called ‘The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories’, features in the ongoing Folkestone Triennial 2011. ‘In Ramallah, Running’, the longest series of texts in a body of work called e.things, will be published Feb/Mar 2012 by Black Dog [see blog]. A novel called ‘1039seconds’, set between the Arabian and Baltic Seas, is making its way...
See website for more; www.g-m-a.net
