Category Archives: Reviews

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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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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Operation Violet Oak

Here is my review of Operation Violet Oak in the Fortnightly Review.

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Yeah! High Fives all round!

Well, this is great! This journal of mine, or blog, or whatever you want to call it, has just hit 40,000 views! Thanks to all of you who have clicked on any post of mine. As an outlying writer, a … Continue reading

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TACTILE, UNTOUCHABLE

Here is a new review for the Fortnightly Review – Tactile, Untouchable Looking at three stunning works of visual art on show in London just recently. I am dedicating this review here to the memory of Mary Maclean Another Review … Continue reading

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Penda’s Fen

  Just watched David Rudkin/Alan Clarke’s film Penda’s Fen. Bizarre, terrifying masterpiece. Thankyou Caroline Ffrench Blake for lending me the DVD. Alan Price has a review of the film in the Pelicanist.   Set in the Cotswold Hills.

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Theatre Reviews

Here is a review in the Fortnightly of Christopher Reid’s Love, Loss and Chianti. 20 March 2020 – subject to postponement. Worth seeing when it returns. XXXXXXXX Here is my review of two intriguing plays in London this April (2019): … Continue reading

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MODERNIST MANQUÉ

‘And when upon your gentle breasts I lie (In due obedience to Nature’s laws) It is in truth iniquity on high That they should open out in chests of drawers… …Surrealist love! For God’s sake change your form Back to … Continue reading

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