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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
The Great Cheese Riot
x THE GREAT CHEESE RIOT x Boston had its Tea Party. What of the Great Cheese Riot? Was it something to keep quiet about, happening as it did In 1766 at Nottingham’s annual Goose Fair Where you were free to … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Howell, civil unrest, Great Cheese Riot, Nottingham, poetry
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The Cob
x Taller than anything built so far, the Cob gleams golden In the sun : each curved window sees to that. Rivalling Mount Everest, only its air-con ensures That anyone can breathe inside its penthouse. x Seriously, the Gherkin and … Continue reading
The Warrior
x I am not suffering, me, from post-traumatic stress disorder. There is a reason for what we do. Their wives have weaponised Their wombs. Our problem is our democracy. We call it mowing the lawn, think of it as a … Continue reading
Eloquence
ELOQUENCE x Eloquence, versed in feats of silence, Loiter where the brown river meets the sea: Shall we watch the large sunset sink again, Or note the reversals on the sound – The dolphin afloat, the ship aground? Deciding to … Continue reading
Lost in the Alps
On my 7th birthday we were in Austria and I wanted to climb a mountain. In the evening my mother and I climbed so high we couldn’t find the way down again and had to be rescued by eight guides … Continue reading
The Truth of the Tale
x He can’t see the wood for trees. Trapped in a thicket, He can’t find the bush for the bushes. A ram Caught by the horns, he can’t turn around, unpick the thorns Or retrace his steps. Can’t even guess … Continue reading
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