Baroque in Hackney
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three thin guys: street life from above
on Oct 27, 2009 in Hackney Life Stoke Newington balcony dashiell hammet hoodies living with teenagers noir police response street crime teenagers in hackney Okay, so Mlle B goes out with some friends for half-term. I’m out, but we speak, etc, and when I call her at 10.45 she says her phone battery’s running down but they’re on the way to somebody’s house. She calls me again about...
when is it a poem? when is it prose?
on Oct 25, 2009 in Living With Words Uncategorized poetry celan literary criticism mallarmé prose prose poems prosody the nature of poetry writing Okay, I’m back. And I’m being asked to talk about what the difference is between prose and poetry. I’ve seen this debate on poetry message boards, where someone posts up a poem for critique and someone else says: “That is terr...
No reMorse: putting Das Boot into Shakeapeare’s sonnets
on Oct 22, 2009 in Shakespeare bad eye patch bagatelles alternative forms morse code poetry emoergency sonnet mp3 Mayday! Shakespeare emergency! Because like the guy said: you never know when you’re going to be trapped in a submarine. 112 Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind; And that which governs me to go about Doth part his function and is partly b...
like money in the Lumb Bank
on Oct 22, 2009 in Uncategorized Okay, this is it. The middle-of-the-night iphone post. I’m really not here. I’m in a bed in a cold room in Yorkshire (overlooked by a v jolly photo of Anthony Minghella), by the side of a load of crags, mill ruins and a little burbling ri...
in which Ms Baroque communes with nature, and Patrick Kurp steals her favourite joke
on Oct 21, 2009 in Ted Hughes the Line on Beauty middle classes mysticism nature outdoors pastoral You know: the one where the Buddhist goes up to the hotdog stand, and the guy says, “What can I get you?” and the Buddhist says, “Um, yeah, can you make me one with everything?” “Hey, you said there was a branch of Fopp...
Bansky and Zorro: some coincidence surely
on Oct 20, 2009 in art some coincidence surely? the meaning of life banksy folk heroes folk legends heroes urban landscape zorro ……………..Zorro………………………………………………Banksy One moves through the night, saving the city from the greedy plutocrats, an...