Monthly Archives: May 2010
poetry in action
Sorry to do this to you on your bank holiday, but to be a practicing poet these days is to be the direct polar opposite of the cave or garret-dweller – no, you have to get out there! So I’m … Continue reading
Filed under poetry, Salt, Shameless Puffs
May 30th: a large reckoninge
or: Marlowe in a tight spot A fine May day in Deptford Strand, on the south bank of the River Thames. The year is the year of our Lord 1593. A widow related to the Queen’s astrologer, Dr John Dee, … Continue reading
Filed under death, Shakespeare, the past
RIP Dennis Hopper: brilliance and poetry
“Uh…The man’s enlarged my mind, uh…uh, he’s a poet warrior in the classic sense, I mean, uh… sometimes he’ll, uh.. well, you’ll say hello to him, right, and he’ll just walk right by you, and he won’t even notice you, … Continue reading
Filed under death, the Line on Beauty, the movies
Poet Files #1
“You are NOT seriously telling me that was trochaic tetrameter. Go take a spondee jump.” So that’s what’s wrong with the current construction industry! This is the first of a new weekly series, which will probably start out regular and … Continue reading
Filed under bagatelles, Poet files
Esoteric London
Enough with the summer novelties; it’s much cooler now, I’m pleased to say. Earlier in the week your faithful blogger was as the wrung-out teatowel. Most un-Londonish. For one reason and another I’ve been thinking a lot lately about London … Continue reading
Filed under ghosts, London, Stoke Newington, the past
