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a novel idea

The Buoy of Orpheus

read extracts from all my own work by richard cooper stephen miles

 


 

poetic exhortation

Whether beggar

or billionaire

The most valuable

thing you own

Is this moment

Use it wisely...

 


 

ears pricking

 

kd lang - hymns of the 49th parallel

 

eric clapton - me & mr johnson

 

rem - around the sun

 

omara portuondo - flor de amor

 

david bowie - best of bowie

 

tony penultimate - soppy & the sentimentals

 

leonard cohen - dear heather

 

 


 

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recommended recent reads

 

Come Dance With Me

Russell Hoban

 

The Mouse and His Child

Russell Hoban

 

Vernon God Little

DBC Pierre

 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

 

Ideas, Obsessions, Intertexts: A Nonlinear Approach to Russell Hoban's Fiction

Yvonne Studer

 

In Search of a Beginning: My Life with Graham Greene

Yvonne Cloetta

 

If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Jon McGregor

 

Her Name Was Lola

Russell Hoban

 

Eats, Shoots and Leaves

Lynne Truss

 

The Powells.Com Interviews: 22 Authors and Artists Talk About Their Books

Dave Weich

 

Cinema Today

Edward Buscombe

 

Miss Renee's Mice Go To An Exhibition

Elizabeth Hoffman

 

Attitude: Wanna Make Something Of It?

Tony Allen

 

Life of Pi

Yann Martel

 

The Sex Life of My Aunt

Mavis Cheek

 

The Lost Army of Cambyses

Paul Sussman

 

Diving Girls

Jo Mazelis

 

What The Sea Means

Dave Awl

 

The Writer's Handbook 2004

Barry Turner (Ed.)

 

Here to Eternity - An Anthology of Poetry

Andrew Motion (Ed.)

 


 

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noel gallagher reads the submissions to the noel gallagher four-noun autobiography title game*

 


 

 

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prick up your ears to how people really speak

 


 

 

yum

 

a rather nicer hamburger than was generally served at the restaurant thoughtcat worked in during the late eighties

 


 

 

miaow

 

an account of a trip to (and a wedding in) thailand

 


 

 

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liner notes

 

richard cooper - all writing except where otherwise indicated, guitar, bathroom vocals, tambourine and biscuits

 

auntie elizabeth - ukulele, backing vocals and tiny tim collection

 

chris bell - bass and glockenspiel

 

francois de ronneaux-bradbeer - mouth harpomarx

 

peter gibbons played sousaphone on track 4

 

gareth-vernon roberts - hyphenophone overdubs on track 12

 

uncle russ - rhythm section, sarod and ongoing support

 

dave awl - awl other instruments

 

auntie fiona is (probably) on holiday

 

big sis yvonne is an angel

 

michael jackson is f***ed

 

keir fawcus would like it to be made clear that he has nothing to do with this website

 

those invited to appear but unable to make it include mister universe, joe hill, wolfgang amadeus jolson, ethel rosenberg, uncle tom, little boy blue and rabbi sigmund freud

 

arvon: no hard feelings

 

"as they say in the business, it's a gig" - loyd pfink

 


 

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actually, noel is reading 'best of friends' and the photo is taken from this tripod site

 


 

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