Man-Eating Typewriter: Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2023

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Milward's novel is about a struggling publishing house, Glass Eye Press, that has been contacted by the mysterious Raymond M. It’s quite a sing-song, sardonic lingo, and so when Novak’s criticising the world around him - a stifling, conservative world he finds unbearable - that world appears even more absurd than it would if he was slagging it off in standard English.

Working at Royal Mail is almost like being paid to be at the amusement arcades, firing parcels into postcoded mailbags, but at its worst it’s like prison labour, tipping mail-sacks on to a belt for seven hours, trance-like. At first his publisher’s footnotes clear up a few phrases and seem to be a voice of reason but then everything bleeds together and it becomes another story entirely. Does the novel’s linguistic and structural complexity explain why it’s been so long since your last book? Featuring Novak’s favourite slogan - LUBRICATE REALITY WITH DREAMS - in a handwritten font by Milward, the organic cotton T-shirts are available in two colourways: blue denim and white.

It was a brilliant mix of people and a time of real togetherness but I hid my writing like a secret vice. I love the poetry of Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautigan and Allen Ginsberg and it seems so much more vivid now that I’ve witnessed up close the vast disparity between America’s haves and have-nots. Here is a novel that lays bare the depravity of human impulse, whilst testing the limits of language and form with masterful ease and reckless glee.

I combined them and thought that Polari, as the ultimate nonconformist lingo, would be an ideal slang for my unhinged anarchist, Novak. co, courtesy of Verdant Brewing Co, featuring Charles Baudelaire, Bellabrusco, Tetley’s Imperial, The Lexington, and much more. I wasn’t writing to impress people and that’s the same now; I want my books to do well but I don’t want fame.

The Goldsmiths Prize was established in 2013 to celebrate the qualities of creative daring associated with the University and to reward fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form.

In the lead-up to the announcement of the Goldsmiths Prize 2023, Richard was interviewed in the New Statesman by Ellen Peirson-Hagger, judge and assistant culture editor. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Climate neutral, using low impact 100% organic cotton, and hand-printed in small editions, their T-shirts are a joy inside and out.So there are bits of bastardised French and German but that’s what Polari is – bastardised Italian mostly, with bits of Hebrew and cockney rhyming slang. Richard has just been shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and we're delighted to be collaborating on this Special Edition t-shirt.