“Contrapreneur in chief” Dale Lately wrote for The Guardian, VICE, Huffington Post, Slate, Baffler, Big Issue, New Internationalist, Litro, Pop Matters, Quietus, Huffington Post and 3:AM Magazine…..
On arrival in Manchester he set up the Antisocial Networking Club (more famous for being offline) and started the Dale Lately blog pages
He leaves behind several million words, with many more on his blog site – a vast inter-connected web of online & part-published drafts – tomes, novels, docu-fiction and general contrapreneurial diatribes and discourses… (along with countless provocations and contrarian windups on social media)
This site will grow over time as a living archive, as his literary community gets to grips with dusty files and manuscripts, as they emerge from the digital jungles all around us… (any material, send to joe.ravetz@gmail.com ….)
(We are still seeking the infamous “12 tribes of Manchester – from Laptopia to the Frackdonalds service bay”– if anyone knows the whereabouts….)
Firstly… 3 video poems & 3 audio poems, from around 2016, with sounds by Simon Connor
And here are some literary gems in the making … mainly thrown together in the venerable coffee corner oases such as Waterstones, Morrisons and Starbucks
Apocalypse – Sooner or Later – how I disappeared down the rabbit hole…(2020)
Gluten Free Socialism– How the Left Needs to Come Down to Earth (2019)
The Echo Chamber – unpublished – Dale Lately – (2016)
Pawn shop bars and poverty chic – Dale Lately – Guardian – (May 2017)
Artists-vs-gentrification/ with Dale Lately on what it all means (2017)
Dale’s dirty old new town – graphic diatribe – (2018)
Click here to become an author (2013)
Borges’ library – Dale Lately – (2012)
"Contrapreneur in chief" Dale Lately wrote for The Guardian, VICE, Huffington Post, Slate, Baffler, Big Issue, Litro, Pop Matters, Quietus, Huffington Post and 3:AM Magazine..... On arrival in Manchester he set up the Antisocial Networking Club and started the Dale Lately blog pages
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CURRENT EVENTS & LINKS
Dale’s Lately rainbow bridge picnics 2023
Summer – Bridestones, Todmorden – 3pm Sat June 3rd
Winter –
- small gathering of like-minds – 5pm Sat Dec 9th: Talleyrand, 1030 Stockport Rd, M19 3WX
- walk in Meadows to memorial site – 230pm, Bowling Green Chorlton
You are invited to celebrate Dale’s life and work and times, at his favourite watering hole… totally informal, self-organized…. arrive on a one wheel bike or slackline between rooftops…. no need to bring stories, poems, pictures, games, songs, rhythms, performance ….
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Meanwhile some links –
Dale’s Lately Mural – pics, videos, poems & stories – https://tinyurl.com/5xhsxrtf
Dale’s public writings – http://dalelately.blogspot.com/
Friends of Dale Lately community – https://www.facebook.com/groups/647807992898811
Library of the future 