Category Archives: Rant

FIFTEEN DAYS LATER.THE VIRUS THAT DARES NOT SPEAK ITS NAME.(another)PROLEGOMENON TO PARALLEL NARRATIVES.FOR MYSELF AND THE CREATIVE WRITING GROUP.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on April 20, 2020 by decayetude

This is by way of a jump-start to my contrapuntal stories about a man in a post-covid landscape where un/sur-reality has become the new reality( we know/experience that bit!); but where the old/”old” reality becomes the new un/sur-reality….by some peculiar … Continue reading →

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ELEVEN DAYS LATER.MORE FIRE AND BRIMSTONE(BUT NOT A DIVINE PUNISHMENT).DIVAGATIONS TEMPLATE FOR AN (ONGOING?) short fiction.{CLUNKY TITLE}.BY STEVEN BENSON{credits to:an idea-engineer:an esteemed prof of all things literary and high(ly) theory(etical)}

Posted on April 16, 2020 by decayetude

So, I am doing ANOTHER creative writing course in this era of Zoom……… IDEA:reverse(?) dystopia: outline{credit/catalyst:acknowledged -fully-in title, above}: A man { a gay flaneur, peut-etre?:P}RETURNS to the post-Covid/plague city… not too literal/not too sci-fi -extrapolated; some sort of auto-fictive … Continue reading →

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“YES, I REMEMBER MUM’S LARDER”.BY STEVEN BENSON. CREATIVE COURSE. 2.20.

Posted on February 8, 2020 by decayetude

“Un Wont Ed Ly…..Farther and farther”{father} Addlestrop, Edward Thomas     It was circa 1966: in mum’s larder. Narnia, filled with hoovers, a semi-desuetudinous(even then) coffee percolater(powered by means of some, possibly, dangerous, methane liquid, and used only on very … Continue reading →

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PRIDE(LIVERPOOL):GAY/QUEER UTOPIA:MAKE IT REAL. MY THOUGHTS.DO WE GO THE DISTANCE? JULY 2018.BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on July 30, 2018 by decayetude

I mean I “get”, I support, and I applaud (Liverpool)Pride; especially the herculanean work by Organisers(all unpaid), especially in regard to huge difficulties obtaining a site this year (2018); all done, more or less, at the last minute. WHAT A … Continue reading →

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“WHO AM I TO WRITE ‘US’?”.”HOMO-HISTORIAN”. REFLECTIONS ON “SOHO”(SCOTT):LOOSE BAGGY, QUEER MONSTROUSNESS. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on May 23, 2018 by decayetude

Quotations(above) from Richard Scott:”My Soho” in his new collection of poems “Soho”, 2018) Read this collection: Scott: self-styled(but insecure) “homo-historian”. I love that phrase:). He evokes-in his multi-layered, Whitmanesque (replete with long lines/enjambement) semi-poetry/semi-prose- the aporia of a gay man … Continue reading →

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HAPPINESS.THE OTHER BOOKSHOP:TANGENTS AND EXPLORATIONS. BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on November 12, 2017 by decayetude

It is Sunday time; it is liminal time. The man in the coffee-tasting emporium ( a rather-aporically-pleasant bastion of {bourgeois}capitalism):- he liked Kafka:) He REALLY liked Kakka; he really did. A serendipity, on the ramparts of the bastion. He was … Continue reading →

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CORNWALL RAMBLINGS(PART 2): GAY IN ST.IVES(?). BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on October 18, 2017 by decayetude

I wouldn’t like to be gay/trans/bi/queer and live-permanently- in St.Ives. It was alienating and lonely enough being there for a week. “you are gay gay gay {etc}{blah blah blah}{YAWN}”; “you are TOO{sic} gay}{bigger yawn}”. WHATEVS…. Ha Ha: BUT, HE mentioned … Continue reading →

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ARCHIVAL PEREGRINATIONS:META AND TANGENTS.BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on September 18, 2017 by decayetude

Thanks to Chris Madden, my archivist-in-chief, for catalysing these random musings:) {this is a list} An archive(?),a catalogue(?) a list(?), a marginalia-ised/personalised list(?). A gay man’s (personal) gay/queer book archive or alternative nomenclatures above. Other approximate synonyms: assemblage, constellations (books circling … Continue reading →

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INTERNATIONAL LOVE. THE DAY BEFORE LIVERPOOL LGBT PRIDE, 2017.BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on July 28, 2017 by decayetude

What format for this? poem/polemic/rant?? It is all too weak. The subject is unwieldy, too poignant, too ANGER-INDUCING:BEYOND words.. That lgbt people in Uganda are IMPRISONED, sometimes, for loving someone of the same sex (nomenclatured as “carnal knowledge against the … Continue reading →

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MY WRITING STYLE AND HOW IT HAS DEVELOPED, PACE NAYSAYERS.SELF-REFLECTIVE AND META.(ONGOING).BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on July 24, 2017 by decayetude

My writing style has developed (for good or ill) IN DESPITE of a minority of others who proclaim their impatience/judgement of it. They do this for motives the nature of which I am unclear. Either: they just do not understand my … Continue reading →

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