Poets’ Tales
Death Comes for the Poets, Matthew Sweeney & John Hartley Williams, Muswell Press, 314pp, £12 (paperback) Foreigners, Drunks and…
One for the Dug-Out
The Kraus Project, Jonathan Franzen, Fourth Estate, 318pp, £18.99, (Hardback) Anyone else made vaguely uneasy by the barrage of…
The Male Nude
The Male Nude: Eighteenth-Century Drawings from the Paris Academy The Wallace Collection 24 October 2013 – 19 January 2014…
On The Wrong Side of History
The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth, trans. Michael Hofmann, Granta 2013, 320pp, £9.99 (paperback) The Emperor’s Tomb, Joseph Roth, trans.…
Long After Macaulay
The ‘Georgians Revealed’ exhibition currently on at the British Library…
A Short History of Name-Dropping
The term is recent, its history short. Name-dropping was coined a term shortly after the second world war, in…
The Making of a Rhapsodic Quilt: Roland Barthes And The Deconstruction of Self
I am not contradictory; I am dispersed. Roland Barthes on Roland Barthes To write on oneself may seem a pretentious…
The Creative Moment, Part Two: Owen and Plath
Wilfred Owen, the finest English war poet, was born in Shropshire, the eldest son of a minor railway official…
Poe and Me
My introduction to Edgar Allan Poe came about courtesy of the twenty-volume Book of Knowledge, an American children’s encyclopaedia…
Unbound
Pele Cox’s dramatical production of ‘Unbound’ sees ‘the triangle of affection’ between Mary, Shelley and Byron…
The Life and Art of Sir Thomas Wyatt
Sir Thomas Wyatt is appreciated today principally for his poetry. In his own time, however, as well as producing some…
My London
This is the fourth in our series in which writers describe what London means to them. Caroline is the author…
Retailing History: the Rushdie Effect
The world was gulled from the start into imagining that a magical star had risen on the literary horizon…
The Mystery of Charles Baudelaire’s Mistress
Baudelaire’s relationship with his muse, Jeanne Duval, also known as his ‘Black Venus’…
Madonna and Child
Don’t believe the lies: Joseph was a randy little sod. That’s why we had to leave, go back to…
Two Poems
Rathke’s Pouch As you read Place the tip of your tongue Against the roof of your mouth Explore the…
Woman on an Island
‘Mes pensées les plus chères sont étrangères au monde, …’ – Francis Ponge: Drame de l’expression Envy the woman…
Two Poems
Cows Looking Out to Fastnet Rock To the very edge, they pit body strength and camouflage against the storm…
The Fridges of Ghosts
are tall and slim. They do not smell of anything – no bacteria grow in yoghurt pots nor chicken…
Cycle
You believe in leaves, their spiky decay, in each damp imprint you find signs the light is a moment…
Two Poems
Aaah Still too winter a night to be lingering but off the track, beyond the shrubbery, these two are struggling,…
Priesteen
He’d watched from the kitchen window as the disembarking passengers made their way from the pier, some of the…
SaltWater
Tobacco The taste of tobacco filled his mouth and made it water. Jim spat, and he felt ready for the…
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