Monthly Archives: August 2010
Bloggers of the canon redux
This week’s musings about the idea of a Victorian internet – in tandem with the fictional website run by a spookily Gary-McKinnon-looking Sherlock Holmes in the current TV series Sherlock (I hope it’s current – or has it finished or … Continue reading
Filed under bagatelles, the past, TV
poetry files #12
According to The Sun (I know, not my usual source), the pop star – & Hackney homegirl – Leona Lewis “has had a soppy poem about a horse inked in a long line down her spine as a permanent tribute … Continue reading
Filed under Poet files
the worlds of poetry and politics collide: some coincidence surely?
Okay, let’s look at this. One took his self-portrait in a convex mirror; the other presented America to itself in a concave mirror. One has spent his life asking questions; the other dodging questions. One is gay, the other could … Continue reading
Filed under some coincidence surely?
The house telegraph
O brave new world THE HOUSE TELEGRAPH A dystopian fantasy from Punch, 1858 A Telegraph all over London? The wires brought to within 100 yards of every man’s door? A Company established to carry it out? Well – I don’t … Continue reading
Filed under the end of the worr-uld, the past
The mind is an enchanting thing
is an enchanted thing ……….like the glaze on a katydid-wing ………subdivided by sun ………till the nettings are legion. Like Gieseking playing Scarlatti; like the apteryx-awl ………as a beak, or the kiwi’s rain-shawl ………of haired feathers, the mind ………feeling its way … Continue reading
