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The Underground Lurches through the Underworld
x …You will pay Alan your last respects. The date conflicts With a meet proposed by a flirt. Two desires are thus at war And their dispute wrenches you apart, surges like the current In a battery being charged beneath … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Howell, Father Christmas, Red Bull, The Runiad, The Underground
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Inheritance Tax
The concept of inheritance tax, specifically the vicesima hereditatum, was introduced by the Romans under Emperor Augustus, making them one of the first to implement such a tax. I checked this out because Boadicea complains about it. x …Hence, although, … Continue reading
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Tagged Boadicea, farmers, inheritance tax, The Runiad
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Deborah on Sigurd
More than forty years ago! My mother was a child prodigy as an artist. On one of her paintings my grandmother has written in pencil, “asked for by Sickert”. I am pleased with this painting of her crossing a ploughed … Continue reading
Christmas Gloom
x MOBILITY * Unable to decide quite where to be, I’m based in the car this Christmas, Travelling from relation to relation. Think of me As an eighty horse-power snail Whose shell goes wherever it’s expected. In between, I make … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, Politics
Tagged Books for Christmas, homelessness, poetry, Politics, Zelensky starmer macron merz
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The Oligarch
x The deep artist stumbles backwards, backwards into a past That can’t be seen. Because that artist faces the other way, Anticipating horrors that progress would inflict upon us all, As evidenced by the tractors that have come to block … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Howell, art, poetry, the oligarch, The Runiad
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Solomon’s Knot
Solomon’s Knot performing Handel’s “Israel in Egypt” in St Mary-at-Hill for the 80th birthday of Alan Moses. x x Sir Alan George Moses (born 29 November 1945) is a former Lord Justice of Appeal, a Court of Appeal Judge and the former chairman of Independent … Continue reading
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Tagged Handel, Israel in Egypt, Lord Moses, Solomon's Knot, St Mary-at-Hill
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Dunera Exhibition in the Library of New South Wales
Hugely impressed with the Library of New South Wales catalogue to the exhibition about the internment camp in Hay, Australia where my father and other jews were interned as “enemy aliens” for the first years of WW2. My father kept … Continue reading
Posted in art, Poetry, Politics, Uncategorised
Tagged Dunera, Eli Howell, enemy aliens, internment camp, Library of New South Wales, my father
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Narnia
x Open the wardrobe door. Push past the gowns and the suits, Past the furs and the overcoats, and you are there. There in Narnia. Trigger warning however: it’s not at all like the Narnia in “The Lion, the Witch … Continue reading
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