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The Silence of the Sea

  A  

 descent  

 to  

 The  

 Old  

 Vic  

 Tunnels…

Duchamp’s Demolition Job

  If you go to the Barbican before June 9, you can see some extraordinary things. The most extraordinary of…

Gunslinger Redux

  Edward Dorn: Collected Poems, edited by Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, Carcanet, 1000pp, £25 (paperback) Westward Haut, Edward Dorn, Etruscan Books,…

Manet and Picasso

  Manet: Portraying Life, The Royal Academy 26  

January  

–  

14  

April  

2013 Becoming Picasso,…

Time of Useful Consciousness

  Time of Useful Consciousness, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, New Directions, 96pp, £14.50 (hardback) Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poetry has outsold his contemporaries. And…

Ancient Flints or Tinned Food

  Rome on the Euphrates: The Story of a Frontier, by Freya Stark, Murray/Tauris, 528pp, £12.99 (paperback) When Dame Freya…

A British Original

Edward Lucie-Smith discusses the work of one Young British Artist, Outsider artist Joe Machine.

Vessels in White and Black

  Gordon Baldwin is one of Britain’s most assured and original artists. He is thought of as a potter, but…

Loving Turgenev

  In 1881, while visiting Tolstoy at Yasnaya Polyana, Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-83) joined in the birthday merrymaking, much to…

Entente Cordiale

  Over  

the  

centuries  

London  

has  

played  

host  

to  

so  

many…

The Last Organ Maker of Bethnal Green

An essay on the mastery of the Mander Workshop who have built the organ for the Queen’s 60th anniversary to be placed in Westminster Abbey later this year.

Two Poems

  A  

Virgin  

in  

Mexico  

City for Jennifer Clement and Victor Manuel Mendiola As I walked…

Two Poems

  New Year’s Eve Night is a rush of noise, an Indian hilltown train steaming up gradients through Himalayan tunnels,…

Spindly Fingers

  Conductor’s  

hands  

rise  

and  

fall  

– a  

free-floating  

maple  

leaf, yet…

Shadow Dance

  My shadow kissed your hands’ shadow as the sun set. Your hands’ shadow put the shadow of a grape…

The Silence of Nudists

  I watched an old nudist tonight wading from the bank of the river, his frail limbs the glowing white…

Assonance

  Assonance  

can  

be  

so  

irritating  

– A  

way  

to  

dodge …

Louis MacNeice

  That saturnine, mercurial Irishman would sit in bars and scribble lines on beer-mats, not bothering tra-la to scan mechanically…

Two Poems

  Is God is The earth is The lecture is in the auditorium The man is from Swabia The cup…

Les Pieds de Dieu

  When the bluebottle lands on the mantelpiece and settles on a note tucked behind Granddad’s carving of something, …

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