Category: Passings

Anselm Hollo (1934-2013)

Rest in Peace Written 22 minutes ago by Jane Dalrymple-Hollo: Paavo Anselm Alexis Hollo passed away peacefully at 10:30 this morning in the loving arms Kaarina, Tamsin, and Jane. It couldn’t have been more...

Toop on Coxhill

Lol Coxhill in a skip. Art event copyright Simon Thackray. Photo: Tony Bartholomew. cris cheek just alerted us to a superb homage to Lol Coxhill by his friend & collaborator David Toop. Below 2...

Karl May (1842-1912)

Today one hundred years ago the German novelist Karl May died. The importance of his work for any German-language adolescent growing up in the 20C  was enormous (at least until the sixties/seventies when a series of bad movies ruined...

Barney Rosset (1922 – 2012)

from NYT obit: Barney Rosset, Trailblazing Publisher, Dies at 89 By JOHN WILLIAMS Barney Rosset, the legendary owner of Grove Press who fought legal battles to publish provocative writers, including Henry Miller and Samuel Beckett,...

Questions about Neruda’s Death

via BBC: Chile Communists request poet Pablo Neruda’s exhumation The Communist Party in Chile has asked for the remains of the poet Pablo Neruda to be exhumed due to allegations that he may have...