Category Archives: Essays

Aristotle Versus Ad Reinhardt

I was very pleased to have this review published in the brilliant magazine Critique d’Art 64 – with a translation into French 64 | Printemps/été : CRITIQUE D’ART 64 Articles –https://journals.openedition.org/critiquedart/122227 The above is a link that will disappear in a few months time. … Continue reading

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Observations on the Caesura

Here are the conventional terms for metrical feet in poetry. a line with two feet is a dimeter; a line with three feet is a trimeter; a line with four feet is a tetrameter; a line with five feet is … Continue reading

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The Indian Jungle

Very pleased that my review of The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations (published by Karnac) has just come out in The Fortnightly. Sadly the author Sudhir Kakar has recently passed away. A link to a website related to his … Continue reading

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My Homage to John White

The unique British composer John White died this January. My response to his memorial concert can be found in the Fortnightly Review here. “…He told me that he was interested in musical accidents, and you couldn’t really get a better … 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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Thoughts on Constitutional Monarchies

New essay in The Fortnightly Review.

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On Difficulty in Poetry

A new essay in The Fortnightly Review!

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How Different Countries View War

Andrei Martyanov (SmoothieX12 on Youtube) cites the movie Come and See when he explains in the second part of a post called Economics of Military Industrial Complexes in Russia and US how the Russians conceive of war and how the … Continue reading

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Tangoshiva – my selling site on Ebay

Click TANGOSHIVA For books by Gwendolyn Leick, Iliassa Sequin, Donald Gardner, David Plante, The Theatre of Mistakes and myself. All recently published books by myself or by Grey Suit are now listed on Tangoshiva. This is the link for my … Continue reading

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Plum Pudding Books

Here is the link to Plum Pudding Books This is my new review for The Fortnightly Review, featuring: Against Decorumby Michael Hampton. IAM 2022 | 120 pp paper | £14.95 $22.33 .The Serpent Coiled in Naplesby Marius Kociejowski. Armchair Traveller, Haus Publishing, … Continue reading

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