Peter McCarey

Find an Angel and Pick a Fight

Preface
Mungo's Hat and Maxwell's Demon (literary historiography)1
Language, Politics, Policy (An International Organization and the Languages of the World)2
Fear of Chaos (MacIntyre, MacDiarmid and Shestov)3
Find an Angel and Pick a Fight (on symmetery in nature)4
"We Believe What Eases Our Minds": (John Anderson and his Logic)
The Selfish Gene (against Richard Dawkins)5
Translator Trattoria (350 years of automatic translation)6
Edwin Morgan the Translator (on verse translation)7
The Tum-ti-tum Epithet (in Lowell, Stevens, W.S. Graham and Mandelshtam)8
Another Informationist Manifesto (on verse as a cutting tool)9
Parallel Text (Blok's Twelve and Dante's Inferno)10
Tintin in Hell11
Geoffrey Hill, the hanging judge12
When We Don't Need to Know (allusion in Bunting, Muldoon, Prynne and Dante)
Intro (on verse as a trace)13
The Little Wild Goose Pagoda (the reader as hero)14
The People of the Opium (an installation for the Scottish parliament)15
The Little Grey Book (the political benefits of bad verse)
A Syllabary16
Weighing Lives (review of a book by John Broome)

1 Edinburgh Review, 84, 93-112
2 Study for the Executive Board of the World Health Organization, September 1999
3 The Wider Europe: Essays on Slavonic Languages and Cultures, in Honour of Professor Peter Henry, edited by J.A. Dunn (Astra Press, 1992), 71-81; also Gairfish, Shibbo-lithos(1992), 124-134.
4 Edinburgh Review, 99, 140-147.
5Edinburgh Review 84, 141-143.
6 Talk at the British Library, 23 April 1998, published by The British Library Centre for the Book (London, 1998).
7 About Edwin Morgan, edited by Robert Crawford and Hamish Whyte (Edinburgh, EUP, 1990), 90-104.
8 Gairfish, The McAvantgarde (1992), 131-134.
9 Contraflow on the Super Highway, edited by W.N. Herbert and Richard Price (London, Vennel Press, 1994), 40-42.
10 Adapted from Peter McCarey and Mariarosaria Cardines, "The Harrowing of Hell and Resurrection: Dante's Inferno and Blok's Dvenadtsat'", Slavonic and East European Review, Vol.63, no.3, July 1985, 337-348.
11 New Writing Scotland 1999.
12 ZeD2O, Autumn-Winter 1997, 70-71.
13 SoFi 4.1, 5-6.
14 The Libraries of Thought and Imagination (Edinburgh, Pocketbooks 12, 2001), 62-67
15 Without Day (Edinburgh, Pocket Books 04, 2000), 162-163
16 from The Syllabary, CD ROM (Geneva, Punastic Press, 2002)