<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[IAN M DUDLEY]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ian Dudley, writer.]]></description><link>https://www.ianmdudley.xyz/blog-1</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:10:26 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.ianmdudley.xyz/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Songs without words]]></title><description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I attended a workshop on asemic poetry at the Ashmolean Museum lead by Sascha Akhtar. The term asemic was coined by visual poets in the 1990s to describe works which have "no semantic content"—poems without words. Asemic poetry makes use of gestures which look like writing and appear interpretable, but which cannot be read. Small children are the among the most prolific producers of asemic works. Their scribble looks like writing but is indecipherable—though this doesn't...]]></description><link>https://www.ianmdudley.xyz/post/songs-without-words</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a43ce76af857210157362cb</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:22:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/307ba2_a056fe36e2f64e41aa015c5afb244cd9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ian Dudley</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mission Statement]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pebbles, Beadnell The aim of science is the discovery of truth while the aim of literature is the production of pleasure. A. E. Housman There is a moral as well as material truth,—a truth of impression as well as of form,—of thought as well as of matter; and the truth of impression and thought is a thousand times the more important of the two. John Ruskin The contemplation of things as they are, without substitution or imposture, without error or confusion, is in itself a nobler thing than...]]></description><link>https://www.ianmdudley.xyz/post/mission-statement</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a2bd19716a9a8229e04d2b0</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:31:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/307ba2_b3ba320df7d2457595c7fb58ca1a7549~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ian Dudley</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interview]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are interviews with all of the finalists from the 2020 Manchester Fiction Prize here.]]></description><link>https://www.ianmdudley.xyz/post/interview</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6036556b0af052002dd44c27</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2021 13:42:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/307ba2_4a79a53e215c4c4886dea8ed8af991fd~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Ian Dudley</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>