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Category Archives: Essays
Meandering through La Belle Epoque
Vuillard Interior Two contributions have come out at the same time (essay and poems). SO – here is my new essay in the Fortnightly Review It’s a celebration of a time that is an inspiration to me. AND – … Continue reading
Posted in art, Essays, Poetry
Tagged Anna de Noailles, Degas, Forain, J-K Huysmans, La Belle Epoque, Manet, Vuillard
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The Second Coming?
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
Latest News from Grey Suit Editions
There is a new review of The Step is the Foot . It’s by Alan Price in the Fortnightly. Follow all our posts on the blog of Grey Suit Editions, click link below. Grey Suit Editions This year we published two … Continue reading
An Inquiry into the Sublime
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
Nubia
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
Posted in Essays, history and Geography, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Nubia, Queen Amanisha, subjugation of women, Sudan, The Kingdom of Kush, warrior queens, Zenobia
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Freewheeling
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
Posted in Essays, FICTION, Poetry
Tagged Boatwhistle, Brian Marley, C. Perricone, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, de Chirico, GrandIOTA, Ken Edwards, Nick Ascroft, Robert Nye
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Grey Suit Editions Launch – Autumn 2019
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!
Posted in Essays, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Anthony Howell, Gertrude Stein, Gwendolyn Leick, poetry and dance, St George's Bloomsbury
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Empyrean Suite – a homage to my friend Fawzi Karim.
Here is a link to my homage to my friend Fawzi Karim – Empyrean Suite – together with an obituary to this great poet and noble man. All in the Fortnightly Review. Also, here is a link to the obituary … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Poetry
Tagged Fawzi Karim, Incomprehensible Lesson, Iraqi Poetry, Plague Lands
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Teaching Writing and Art in Jail
A talk given for Confer: The Masks of Masculinity – Exploring the Links Between Male Vulnerability and Violence (18th May 2019) – at Foyles Bookshop. In the early years of this century I started teaching creative writing and art in … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Politics
Tagged Creative Writing, Jail, teaching in prisons, young male criminals
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