Daniel Fraser
@harmlessfires.bsky.social
Writer and critic. Work in Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review, Mute, Aeon, Radical Philosophy, London Magazine +. Tutor & PhD Scholar at UCC. Mostly writing about Marx, Benjamin, Celan, Duras.
Hanging out with the angels 🪽
July 6, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Hanging out with the angels 🪽
These are very good 🎥🎬
June 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
These are very good 🎥🎬
My ballot for the best films of the 21st century NYT poll 🎥🎬
June 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
My ballot for the best films of the 21st century NYT poll 🎥🎬
Lowell, from Lord Weary's Castle 🏰
June 2, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Lowell, from Lord Weary's Castle 🏰
Delighted to have this little poem selected by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin for the new issue of Cyphers. 🦠👨💻
May 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Delighted to have this little poem selected by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin for the new issue of Cyphers. 🦠👨💻
'My heart will only, leaping, kiss / June's woven scarf that strangled me.' —Richard Eberhart, 'The Scarf of June'
March 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
'My heart will only, leaping, kiss / June's woven scarf that strangled me.' —Richard Eberhart, 'The Scarf of June'
Early birthday present 🎁
March 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Early birthday present 🎁
Saturday night with friends.
March 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Saturday night with friends.
Exciting piece of Duras-iana from my research: this issue of L'Avant-Scène that prints side-by-side an outline of the images in India Song & Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert with their shared audio track in between:
February 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Exciting piece of Duras-iana from my research: this issue of L'Avant-Scène that prints side-by-side an outline of the images in India Song & Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert with their shared audio track in between:
'Werckmeister Harmonies', Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky, 2000.
January 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
'Werckmeister Harmonies', Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky, 2000.
'The Wild One', László Benedek, 1953.
January 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
'The Wild One', László Benedek, 1953.
Nick Laird 'American Poem'.
January 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Nick Laird 'American Poem'.
Worth sitting through Superman 3 just for this
January 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Worth sitting through Superman 3 just for this
Reading critiques of Adorno
January 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Reading critiques of Adorno
Christmas present 🎁
December 17, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Christmas present 🎁
Now reading. 📚🌨️
December 6, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Now reading. 📚🌨️
'Freedom encloses my mind like a suit of armour.'
November 26, 2024 at 9:51 PM
'Freedom encloses my mind like a suit of armour.'
Letizia Battaglia at The Photographer's Gallery, London.
November 24, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Letizia Battaglia at The Photographer's Gallery, London.
Review appearing soon 🍁📚
November 16, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Review appearing soon 🍁📚
'Everything Just Goes Black', my article on time, melodrama and narrative in The Sopranos, has been published by Jump Cut.
Just the thing to put a blue moon in your eye: www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue...
Just the thing to put a blue moon in your eye: www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue...
January 20, 2024 at 1:39 PM
'Everything Just Goes Black', my article on time, melodrama and narrative in The Sopranos, has been published by Jump Cut.
Just the thing to put a blue moon in your eye: www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue...
Just the thing to put a blue moon in your eye: www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue...
Tonight's reading.
December 30, 2023 at 10:33 PM
Tonight's reading.
Festive reading
December 10, 2023 at 12:45 PM
Festive reading