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Poet, essayist, dancer, performance artist....

FACES AND VASES

Recent developments: drawing in lead pencil over indigo/black paint. Several drawings done with the eyes closed. Erasure on vases done with the eyes closed. The vases are inspired by a line from one of my own poems: the broken vase … Continue reading →

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Of a Snake and a Stith

From Arthur Golding’s A Moral Fabletalk. Seems a bit like NATO threatening Russia. A “stith” is an anvil. A snake, being in malice with a stith, laboured to bite off a piece of it. But the more fiercely he bit, … Continue reading →

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Gonzalo Lira on Victoria Nuland

A piece by the intrepid journalist Gonzalo Lira – murdered recently in a Ukrainian jail.  

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Colonel Douglas Macgregor on the state of the world today

Colonel Macgregor is to my mind one the most astute commentators on the state of affairs that exists in the world today, and this interview with a German site gives a very good introduction to his thought. Douglas Abbott Macgregor … Continue reading →

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Heyzine Books – Read some of my work for free online.

I have published several of my books on this attractive site which closely resembles a printed book in its format. You can read them all for free. There are plenty of my earlier books in print and on Abebooks, Amazon … Continue reading →

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The Runiad

Welcome to The Runiad This is the site on my journal for the epic I started writing in 2023. There will be 24 books to it, making it the length of the Odyssey. It will take me several years to … Continue reading →

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AS IF IT WERE A BOW – Poems and paintings from Thailand

AS IF IT WERE A BOW is a Heyzine flipbook. Read it for free. This is the link – https://heyzine.com/flip-book/86a5281b7f.html These poems and paintings were all done on my wonderful trip to Thailand last year – hosted by Bhorani Nissaisorakarn. … Continue reading →

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Twice as hard, thrice as hard, four times as hard.

“An eye for an eye” (Biblical Hebrew: עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן, ʿayīn taḥaṯ ʿayīn) is a commandment found in the Book of Exodus 21:23–27 expressing the principle of reciprocal justice measure for measure. The earliest known use of the principle appears … Continue reading →

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Denis Boyles

Dr Denis Boyles has passed away after a short illness.  Dr Boyles and Mrs Boyles have been teaching at the Chavagnes International College since 2008. He was editor of The Fortnightly Review. He published my work for many years as … Continue reading →

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SAMSON – Suicide Terrorist

SAMSON – committed suicide in Gaza by bringing the Philistine temple of Dagon down on top of himself, killing everyone in the Temple.  See the Old Testament – Judges 13-16. “The Samson Option” is an idea prevelant in Netanyahu’s Israel … Continue reading →

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