Monthly Archives: September 2009
elegantly dressed Baroque
It’s the first Elegantly Dressed Wednesday in quite a while, and we have – not a Baroque painter, or a Pope, or a tormented ex-furniture designer to thank, but a punk kid who argued with her art teacher. The only … Continue reading
Filed under art, Elegantly Dressed Wednesday, pseud's corner
Forward Ho! small presses take over UK poetry scene flash extra
Okay – I finally got my copy of the Forward Prize anthology – only a week after it was posted in Cambridge! Thank you Post Office, I really am grateful. Sharp-eyed and otherwise well-informed readers will know that the reason … Continue reading
Filed under poetry, Shameless Puffs
letter to my GP
Dear Dr My GP, I am writing to you today about my ankle. I hope you don’t mind, but I am writing to you via my blog, as I have already whetted my readers’ appetites for news of the Baroque … Continue reading
Filed under America, useless, what IS it with this lot??
happy birthday Mr Eliot
Here he is, as I’m in a ghostly mood this week: the spectre that looms over us all - ‘from which none of us can escape,” as he himself said of Ulysses. There’s no getting away from him. 121 today. … Continue reading
Filed under Living With Words, poetry
