Category Archives: Essays

The Second Coming?

Posted on December 13, 2019 by

I totally disagree with Polly Toynbee’s miserable attack on Corbyn (13/12/19) in the Gruniad. The problem, as I see it, is that the toffs can always count on the working class to attack the middle class, since the workers perceive … Continue reading →

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Latest News from Grey Suit Editions

Posted on December 10, 2019 by

There is a new post on the blog of Grey Suit Editions Grey Suit Editions This year we published two books – The Step is the Foot and Gertrude Mabel May, and a new chap-book is about to be published by Lorraine … Continue reading →

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An Inquiry into the Sublime

Posted on October 4, 2019 by

Walter de Maria Lightning Field 1977 This talk for Norfolk Contemporary Art Society in Norwich, Wednesday 2nd October, 2019, is in essence a much edited amalgam of two of my essays in Art and its Dark Side: the eight rivers … Continue reading →

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Nubia

Posted on October 1, 2019 by

Rome and Nubia With this link to an excellent documentary about what happened after the deaths of Anthony and Cleopatra, I’m going to open a post I shall return to on Nubia. It was thus I was introduced to Queen … Continue reading →

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Freewheeling

Posted on September 2, 2019 by

For a round-up of good late Summer reads go to The Fortnightly Review   Post-Summer Reading: Hebdomeros by Giorgio de Chirico; introduction by John Ashbery (1992 edition) Exact Change | 258 pp | £14.93 $17.95 . Tales I Told My Mother  by Robert … Continue reading →

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Bullingdon

Posted on September 2, 2019 by

Viscount Bullingdon is the son of the Right Honourable Sir Charles Lyndon, the deceased husband of Lady Lyndon, who Redmond Barry, Irish adventurer and opportunist, inveigles into a marriage that will be advantageous to him. He does so by the … Continue reading →

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Grey Suit Editions Launch – Autumn 2019

Posted on August 19, 2019 by

Here is the link to our Launch for Grey Suit Editions on 20 Sept 19 Two books for the price of one – only at this free event!

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