Steph Yorke

She is my favourite painter. Googling Agnes Martin led me to her book, Writings. The text is available online in various formats, but...

Sherri Benning’s Field Requiem: this book sent me to the dictionary (well, the internet search) again and again. While there’s nothing...

Cited: Herbert, George. "Easter Wings." Pritchard, N.H. The Matrix. Poems 1960-1970. Here are two poems which might be good fun to set...

A couple Christmases ago, a relative got me a FitBit Inspire™. Sometimes I wear it. I had my FitBit Inspire™ on while scrubbing the floor...

“Is there no way out?” Paz, Octavio. New Directions. Trans. Denise Levertov. Akerman, Chantal. Je, Tu, Il, Elle. “Rooms2020.” Originally...

I recently watched Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles for the first time, and I thought it was...

Pozzi, Antonia. Poems. Trans. Peter Robinson. Alma Classics: Richmond, 2011. I don’t read Italian; I’ve only read Pozzi’s poems in...

I find myself doubling back to Triomf. It’s not really a favourite, but I found a comparison between it and Mrs. Dalloway pretty darn...

The * mid-paragraph is important; please don’t read the first paragraph without also reading the one that follows. Quite a few years ago,...

Big flashing halogen content warning for both the film and the book. Campion's Sweetie often represents disability in a hurtful and...

I only have a copy of Wright's Collected Poems (which doesn't actually have all of his poetry in it -- buyer beware) so what follows is...

I don't know if the Great Resignation is something that's really going on in the world of human actions, or if it's happening primarily...

I dream of an anthology which would bring together the most striking descriptions of old men from poetry. It could be called A Tattered...

Proust, Marcel. Swann’s Way, the first book of In Search of Lost Time. Penguin edition translated by Lydia Davis. MacLeod, Alistair....

Marx, Karl. Capital Volume One: A Critique of Political Economy. Penguin Classics, 1992. Here are a few quotations from Marx's Capital...

Content warning (for the series, not the post) for class stereotypes, racism, homophobia, and antifeminism. Not always/only, but...

Content warning for antifeminism/ableism in these films. Redbeard (1965) This film features one disabled woman and (arguably) one...

There are quite a few Emily Dickinson poems you could read (or wilfully misread) in the context of climate change. “Did we abolish Frost...

Read the poem for a haemophiliac who crashes his motorcycle in Mary Peelen’s Quantum Heresies (“Confessions, 40”) alongside the poem “The...

See "Street Haunting: A London Adventure" in The Collected Essays of Virginia Woolf. Must Have Books: Victoria, BC. Content warning for...