Saturday, 19 July 2025

A Very British Disorder: Finishing School for Versifiers (Part 8)

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A late 20th Century survey suggested 8 per cent of the UK adult population had recently written a poem in some manner (of which two-thirds w...
Tuesday, 8 July 2025

The Flip Side of the Mother of Exiles: Return the Statue of Liberty to France!

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  Reality is that which everything is an instance of. I lift my lamp beside the golden door! ‘Give us back the Statue ...
Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Fourteen Years Past: Publication of ‘Listen Close to Me’

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Today, from my publisher’s Facebook page:   Today. I wrote: Yes, indeed. As I remember it, the cover’s facelessness was the more sinister fo...
Saturday, 21 June 2025

Walt Whitman’s Private Anthem Exalts a Certain Breed of Liberated Man Desirous They should Together Sing His America.

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‘May the glory of that pinnacle hold free men untramelled, free and unenthralled.’ Walt Whitman by Ralph Steadman from  Ambit   176   Spring...
Sunday, 8 June 2025

Co-regnant: The Coregency of British Postage Stamps.

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 Yes, presently these British postage are co-regnant as to their currency and validity wihin our postal system. The contents of a Briton’s p...
Friday, 30 May 2025

Vignette 9: Twenty-five words.*

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Reclusive maiden aunt requests brother to park his motorbike outside her house to deter suitors.  Bachelor, attracted to motorbike, visits h...
Sunday, 13 April 2025

AI Catastrophe! Ultimate Torment of the Species: Interrogation by Chatbot.

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Once, many years ago, while studying a theatre programme, I read in a note on performers the observations of the polymathic opera director J...