New Year's Eve and a traditional moment to look back in review and forward with a measure of whatever optimism…
The Man Who Understood the Problem Photo: Harvey Finkle: Tucson 1987 Words: The Financial Times and Kenneth Hudson Diseased English…
Raw, cold, and damp but it's still good to get out. Thanks to the ongoing lurgy there are no social…
The sun shining ... just there in the sky like a force-ripe orange That striking image is from Samuel Selvon's…
Two poets in a muddle. Or rather two poems. John Ashbery's A Mood of Quiet Beauty (from April Galleons 1987) meets…
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I came across "The Consent" when I was exploring Howard Nemerov's life and work for some other posts. It seems…
Stickybeak NOUN: an intrusive, meddlesome, busybody, nosy parker who sticks their nose (beak) into other people's business. The act of…
The Year Begins in October Armistead Maupin based his vignettes of gay life in 1970s San Francisco - Tales of…
Together with a whole lot of other readers in the UK in 1976, I read Wilt - the first in…