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Nicole Flattery

Nicole Flattery's criticism has appeared in the GuardianThe Irish Times and the LRB. Her story collection Show Them A Good Time was published in 2019. Her favourite Chantal Akeman film is News From Home.



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Chantal Akerman’s ‘My Mother Laughs’

Book Review

October 2019

Nicole Flattery

Book Review

October 2019

There’s a scene in the documentary I Don’t Belong Anywhere, about the Belgian filmmaker’s Chantal Akerman’s life and work, where she discusses her only...

Book Review

August 2018

Lorrie Moore's ‘See What Can Be Done’

Nicole Flattery

Book Review

August 2018

Lorrie Moore writes in her introduction to See What Can Be Done that, at the start of her career,...

I mind my pomegranate like an open door watch it from the corner of my bed with the lights on It grows on trees here so I mind my pomegranate & like an open door   it creaks fruitlessness; do all pomegranates stain like shadows? I crack its fruit onto the floor and mind my pomegranate like an open door, watch from the corner of my bed   The pomegranates felt a sense of belatedness so they imitated until they created their own culture By this, of course, I mean the pomegranates felt a sense of belatedness so   their art was modelled after Chronos, engendering time and all its tensions Even building in their prime the pomegranates felt a sense of belatedness so they created until they imitated their own   Have you ever heard of the Heraclitean pomegranate? Or seen its shape-shifting jewels whip light from an egg-yolk into vanishing air? Oh but have you ever heard of the Heraclitean pomegranate?   Tell me, when was the last time you fed the pomegranate, allowed its composition to transform you? Spill it! Have you ever heard of the Heraclitean pomegranate? Or seen it whip jewels like a shapeshifter?   I was pomegranate the other day and tripped over a bur Nowadays, I always get a sprain when I pomegranate My grandfather said he was pomegranate the other day and tripped—   like when the colonisers withdrew and left his tree exposed to the hewing I don’t want to think about when I was pomegranate The other day I tripped over It was a blur Nowadays, I always forget my name     This pomegranate is like a pomegranate: it falls from the sky and stains everything red on impact It’s deaf to the screaming children This pomegranate is like a pomegranate:   you can’t tell which way or who it’ll split For fate decides—meaning power decides It’s too late when this pomegranate is like a pomegranate falls from the sky and stains everything red

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January 2018

Nicole Flattery

Contributor

January 2018

Nicole Flattery’s criticism has appeared in the Guardian, The Irish Times and the LRB. Her story collection Show Them A Good...

Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘Her Body and Other Parties’

Book Review

January 2018

Nicole Flattery

Book Review

January 2018

I’m reluctant to admit this but it’s often easier for me to write about a book I hated rather than a book I loved....

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Prize Entry

April 2015

I Told You...

Owen Booth

Prize Entry

April 2015

1. The Triumph of Capitalism   It was the end of the cold war and capitalism had won. Everywhere...

feature

October 2014

Blood Out of a Zombie

Laurence A. Rickels

feature

October 2014

The German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger has on three different occasions put the camera aside and directed for the theatre, each...

Art

May 2012

Art's Fading Sway: Russian Ark by Aleksandr Sokurov

Scott Esposito

Art

May 2012

I have often fallen asleep in small theatres. It is an embarrassing thing to have happen during one-man shows,...

 

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