In ‘Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes’ (1986) [I talk about the Graceland album a little here] a young man’s…
Stop. Which one are you? One of mine?Hard to keep track of you. You are so small,small beyond small.
So, some years back I translated Finnegans Wake into Latin. You can buy the resulting volume as an e-book from Amazon…
I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o’er Martian hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A mass of…
Why choose the penguin, that blameless but distant avian, as name and brand? Allen Lane was following a German…
Sassoon’s superbly effective poem works via simplicity: plain language, simple end-stopped single-syllable rhymes, a…
In his 1963 essay ‘Art of the Coke Culture’ (a reference to Coca-Cola, not the white powder) art-critic David…
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A while ago, on a different blog, I posted about Coleridge’s The Ancient Mariner, a poem of…