TALES FROM THE UNIVERSE No 4 - This week's newsletter: a 1998 telephone call, a dream I had, no one talks SEX, Peter Carey, It is all art baby, an exclusive poem, and more...

An arcadia of imagination

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Welcome (and find here nearly 7,000 stories by me, dating back to 2002, for The Guardian and Observer)

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1. Part 5 of BECAUSE THEY CAN PLAY F’CKING GOOD FOOTBALL is coming:

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On Wednesday the next installment of my new Erik ten Hag book is published - as usual a sample of this is readable for free, the rest for subscribers at £4.99 a-month, the story coming in weekly chapters.

In part 5…

‘big Wout is amongst us’

‘Case-miro, oh oh OH’

‘a foot in the carabao cup final’

And copious further intrigue in the tale of Ten Hag’s first term as Manchester United manager.

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2. Tune

Drum 'n Bass/House

dream a dream

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3. It is all art, baby

running up a meadow/death in the act

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4. Poem: the man i still knew

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the man i still knew

in the spring
i came upon
a man

i forgot
i knew
who

sat on a wall
of stars that 
rained across

the once dawned dawn;
a celestial sight
the man/the wall 

of interstellar fountaining; 
through a thunderstorm
of light