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Rose McLaren

Rose McLaren is an artist in London.



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Talk Into My Bullet Hole

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July 2015

Rose McLaren

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July 2015

‘Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?’ ‘Oh, I don’t...

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May 2014

Art Does Not Know a Beyond: On Karl Ove Knausgaard

Rose McLaren

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May 2014

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has an oddly medieval form: a cycle, composed of six auto-biographical books about the...

Obscene Intimacy My soldier was found unresponsive restrained In his cell death being due to blunt force injuries To lower extremities complicating coronary artery Disease contusions & abrasions on forehead Nose head behind ear neck abdomen buttock Elbow thigh knee foot toe w/ hæmorrhage On rib area & leg blunt force injuries resulted In extensive muscle damage muscle necrosis & Rhabdomyolysis electrolyte disturbances primarily Hyperkalæmia elevated blood potassium level & Metabolic acidosis occurs within hours of muscle Damage massive sodium and water shifts occur re – sulting in hypovolemic shock & casodilatation And later acute renal failure the deceased’s un – derlying coronary artery disease would compromise Ability to tolerate electrolyte & fluid abnormalities Underlying malnutrition so it’s likely dehydration Only exacerbated the effects of muscle damage Mere bones of desolation now things   — my love restores   False Communiqué One civilian detainee was found Unresponsive with a ligature Or plastic band around my cock A bottle ring pops pigeon death In cell behaviour health unit joint Task force Guantanamo 2200 hours When the ligature gets cut I come Without remorse on the source Of light his electric body being Banished to mulch organic comp – osition capital dividing luminous Flux a rumour a burden of labour Having fallen away from the tend – ency of profit to rise and fall w/ The quality of radiance his cock The way any man will use my hands Like vitreous fluid his urine emits So diffused a glow no needle-like Beam thru pores of junk no evi – dence of trauma resuscitation Efforts begging immediate organ – isation to turn blood back To military cargo my skin Now shares  — with a tank

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August 2014

Rose McLaren

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August 2014

Rose McLaren is an artist in London.

The Prosaic Sublime of Béla Tarr

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Issue No. 6

Rose McLaren

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Issue No. 6

I have to recognise it’s cosmical; the shit is cosmical. It’s not just social, it’s not just ontological, it’s really huge. And that’s why we...
Stalker, Writer or Professor? Geoff Dyer's Zona and Genre

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February 2012

Rose McLaren

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February 2012

‘So what kind of a writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?’ wonders Geoff Dyer half way through Zona. Such...

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May 2011

Short Cuts

Charles Boyle

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May 2011

1.. Whatever it is that the literature department of Arts Council England (ACE) is for, it can’t be for...

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Issue No. 18

Don't Give Up the Fight

Osama Alomar

TR. C. J. Collins

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Issue No. 18

  DON’T GIVE UP THE FIGHT   While cavorting in a field, the wild horse felt overjoyed to see...

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October 2014

Roman Nights

Martin Glaz Serup

TR. Christopher Sand-Iversen

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October 2014

4.    It’s New Year’s Eve, I’m standing newly divorced on a roof in a town, we toast the...

 

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