Monday, 12 June 2023

A Discomposed Gnat-Bitten Townie Sulks and Composes an Anti-Haiku in Memory of a Disagreeable Visit to the Atonal English Countryside.

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  babbling of birds the warbling of a brook then a five-barred thing The anti-haiku poet’s expression of a gnat horde composed in a fury of ...
Friday, 14 April 2023

Beware of Pity

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( Ungeduld des Herzens* ) In homage to Stefan Zweig              This blossomed tree grown crookèd on the hill              an onshore wind ...

Legend

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Near lost the tide. We grazed the harbour wall. Sheared bows. Half her good name the Devil tore To goad our fears: ‘ Bounty she is! No mor...
Monday, 29 August 2022

News flash! Eyeless in Emmaus.

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LATEST! There have been conflicting reports from followers of the condemned man, who have informed the public that they are no longer searc...
Tuesday, 16 August 2022

“More Out-takes from Ol’ Ameriky” (The Uncollected Songbook Part 1.) There’s a train acomin’

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                      There’s a train acomin’                                               a roarin’ down the track                       D...
Monday, 15 August 2022

Official! The Needlessness of Education for a Gentleman.

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The painter’s daughter sat by the young Lord Braidwood, who thought her very pretty girl, and soon found out that she was a very clever one,...
Sunday, 20 March 2022

Skylon: British Maypole for a Brave New World?

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I haven’t thought about the Skylon for decades. That is until a picture postcard depicting the Sussex village of my infancy fell from a sta...