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Patrick Langley
Patrick Langley's debut novel Arkady was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in March 2018. He writes on contemporary art for Frieze, Art Agenda, and other publications. He is a contributing editor at The White Review.

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Jesse Ball’s ‘Census’

Book Review

May 2018

Patrick Langley

Book Review

May 2018

Reading Jesse Ball’s new novel feels like being hypnotised, or like having your heart broken – but really it feels like both at once....

Book Review

November 2017

M. John Harrison's 'You Should Come With Me Now'

Patrick Langley

Book Review

November 2017

In a 2012 interview with the Guardian, M. John Harrison argued that the segregation of literature into genres is ‘a...

Obscene Intimacy My soldier was found unresponsive restrained In his cell death being due to blunt force injuries To lower extremities complicating coronary artery Disease contusions & abrasions on forehead Nose head behind ear neck abdomen buttock Elbow thigh knee foot toe w/ hæmorrhage On rib area & leg blunt force injuries resulted In extensive muscle damage muscle necrosis & Rhabdomyolysis electrolyte disturbances primarily Hyperkalæmia elevated blood potassium level & Metabolic acidosis occurs within hours of muscle Damage massive sodium and water shifts occur re – sulting in hypovolemic shock & casodilatation And later acute renal failure the deceased’s un – derlying coronary artery disease would compromise Ability to tolerate electrolyte & fluid abnormalities Underlying malnutrition so it’s likely dehydration Only exacerbated the effects of muscle damage Mere bones of desolation now things   — my love restores   False Communiqué One civilian detainee was found Unresponsive with a ligature Or plastic band around my cock A bottle ring pops pigeon death In cell behaviour health unit joint Task force Guantanamo 2200 hours When the ligature gets cut I come Without remorse on the source Of light his electric body being Banished to mulch organic comp – osition capital dividing luminous Flux a rumour a burden of labour Having fallen away from the tend – ency of profit to rise and fall w/ The quality of radiance his cock The way any man will use my hands Like vitreous fluid his urine emits So diffused a glow no needle-like Beam thru pores of junk no evi – dence of trauma resuscitation Efforts begging immediate organ – isation to turn blood back To military cargo my skin Now shares  — with a tank

Contributor

August 2014

Patrick Langley

Contributor

August 2014

Patrick Langley’s debut novel Arkady was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in March 2018. He writes on contemporary art for Frieze, Art...

Art

September 2014

Semi Floating Sculpture

Luke Hart

Patrick Langley

Art

September 2014

Luke Hart will meet me at Gate 7. I get the text on the DLR, heading east past Canary...

Ordinary Voids

feature

Issue No. 9

Ed Aves

Patrick Langley

feature

Issue No. 9

I am standing in a parallelogram of shrubbery outside London City Airport. Ed is twisting a dial on his Mamiya RZ67 and squinting into its viewfinder. He...
Car Wash

fiction

January 2013

Patrick Langley

fiction

January 2013

He is sitting on the back seat of a car, somewhere in France. It’s a bright blue day, absurdly hot, and the roads are...
Ryan Trecartin: The Real Internet is Inside You

Art

April 2012

Patrick Langley

Art

April 2012

 ‘What’s that buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing?’ Marshall McLuhan   1: Your Original Is Having A Complete Human Change Meltdown Makeover   It’s difficult to describe Ryan Trecartin’s...
Nigel

poetry

September 2011

Patrick Langley

poetry

September 2011

Jamie sat alone at the edge of the dance floor and wondered how long it would be until Nigel arrived. The band had been...
Beyond the Horizon

fiction

Issue No. 1

Patrick Langley

fiction

Issue No. 1

Listen to the silence, let it ring on. (Joy Division, Transmission) I It is not yet dawn. The city is a distant murmur. Laid...

READ NEXT

fiction

Issue No. 15

Haircut Magazine

Luke Brown

fiction

Issue No. 15

I. I used to worry about how much more intelligent and successful I would be if I hadn’t spent...

Art

February 2015

Filthy Lucre

Rye Dag Holmboe

Art

February 2015

White silhouettes sway against softly gradated backgrounds: blues, purples, yellows and pinks. The painted palm trees are tacky and...

poetry

September 2014

Breath-Manifester & Drones

Ned Denny

poetry

September 2014

Breath-Manifester   Each bared morning is a swell time to die, Leaving the town’s ornate maze for the level...

 

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