Sunday, 28 February 2016

Lines Rejected by Rainer Maria Rilke

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We had passed through the lens of the looked-for garden and instead of the pleasure-grounds found waterfalls drowning how darkly the ...
Thursday, 18 February 2016

Stoneburgh Spy Campus (Part 7): Criminal Psychogeography and Sexual Blackmail.

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‘The French say there’s only one good thing to come out of Belgium and that’s the train to Paris.’ There was a ripple of appreciative ...
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Friday, 5 February 2016

Lord Lucan: A Case of Long Overdue Lexicological Redundancies?

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So the case of the fugitive earl is closed. Now, this week in a London court, ‘Lucky’ Lord Lucan, missing since 1974, is declared officiall...
Monday, 1 February 2016

Song for the Dying

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Today, turning the street corner, I recognised the nonagenarian from the nursing home, bewildered where she’d stooped to stare shortsightedl...
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...
Saturday, 23 January 2016

Stoneburgh Spy Campus . . . B.A.R. . . . ‘Please Burn After Reading’ Rubs Out Accountability of Command. (Part 6.)

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Earlier this week, passing through the parklands of Stoneburgh in the bright winter sunlight, under a cloudless sky, I was reminded of a for...