Catherine Eisner
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Roy Fuller
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Sunday, 19 March 2017
‘Did someone call for a recitation?’ Finishing School for Versifiers (Part 5)
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All poets, whatever they may seem to others, die young. Tennessee Williams Suddenly Last Summer . You might say of certain literar...
Friday, 17 February 2017
Finishing School for Versifiers, part 4: Acerbic censure (from the Saloon Bar) of that low brow poetic persona.
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Well. I don’t know. More than four decades on and a voice from the Saloon Bar censures in one breath a generation of British poets for ingra...
Monday, 25 January 2016
Satirical and satyrical, extramural and intramural studies: Alexis Lykiard’s ‘Schooled For Life’.
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One’s first impulse on reading Alexis Lykiard’s latest verse collection, Schooled For Life , is to adapt Wilhelm Busch’s famous dictum Ist...
Friday, 29 November 2013
The Forgotten Symbol or, rather, a Non Sequitur Exposed?
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Some months ago, I wrote to my loyal correspondent in the very heart of Russia – a Chekhovian scholar of great learning and intuition (whom ...
Saturday, 31 August 2013
Hypatian Erotica Awards … High Victorian nominees announced!
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A recent issue (24.05.13) of The Lady (founded 1885), belatedly arriving in the mails, contains the oddest intelligence. Its corr...
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