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The Rime of the Globalised Mariner. In Six Parts (with bonus tracks from a chorus of Greek shippers).

Michael Bloor Seafarers International Research Centre, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom First Published in Sociology, 47: 30-50, 2013 Part I It is a global Mariner,And he stoppeth one of three.‘By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,Now wherefore stopp’st thou me? ‘The centre’s doors are opened wide,And Bourdieu got it right:Consumption lendsContinue reading “The Rime of the Globalised Mariner. In Six Parts (with bonus tracks from a chorus of Greek shippers).”

Twenty Pounds a Completed Interview, Plus Expenses

Michael Bloor (first published in Fictive Dream, Nov. 13th, 2016) It’s a week since Kate and I had the row. It started at a far-away station (Kate’s reverse parking) and picked up more and more momentum en route – my old leather jacket, the joke I told at Kate’s sister’s wedding, the snore wars, theContinue reading “Twenty Pounds a Completed Interview, Plus Expenses”

The Aberdeen Kayak

by Michael Bloor (first published in Breve New Stories, Vol 1, Issue 1, January 2016) Sometime between 1700 and 1720 (accounts vary) an Inuit man landed in a kayak near themouth of the River Don in Aberdeenshire. The fishermen who found him put him in a cartand took him to a nearby cottage, where heContinue reading “The Aberdeen Kayak”