Baroque in Hackney
Blog URL http://baroqueinhackney.wordpress.com
Located London, London United Kingdom
Tags books, poetry, writing, literature, arts, hackney, stoke newington, movies, life
"Poet, critic, copywriter, editor, conversationalist, style consultant, personal shopper, siren, and housemaid to the gods - at least they think they’re gods." A literary, cultural and life-based blog based in Hackney.
Latest Blog Posts
- Berryman, as in a dream(song) on Nov 19, 2009 in poetry dreamsongs drunken poets john berryman
Agh! Work, teaching, sleep. So here’s John Berryman for you. 1967. Stone cold sober. Many thanks to Michael Symmonds Roberts for bringing it to the Baroque attention.
- cadenza of the moose euphoric on Nov 19, 2009 in America bagatelles donald rumsfeld poetry sarah palin
Here, apparently, is a real sentence from Sarah Palin’s book: “As the soles of my shoes hit the soft ground, I pushed past the tall cottonwood trees in a euphoric cadence, and meandered through willow branches that the moose munched on.&#...
- an era ends, and another begins on Nov 18, 2009 in Ernest Dowson Life Living With Words oscar wilde
Okay well it isn’t very poetic but your correspondent here has been very busy the past few days and will continue be so for the next few. Today I begin my new job, a new period of employment, muffled under the protection of an immense bureaucra...
- urban pastoral on Nov 14, 2009 in Uncategorized
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- finders keepers? the clash of intellectual property and a venerable poetic tradition on Nov 13, 2009 in Living With Words poetry anagrams andrew motion art and academe ben shephard cento poetry cut-up poetry dub poetry flarf found poetry plagiarism remembrance day poem
Ausonius declaiming someone else’s words a long time ago Fortunately news moves slowly in the poetry world; this has grown rather old in the three days it took the Guardian to get back to me saying it was rather old… but you guys don̵...
- Oscar & Henry on Amazon on Nov 11, 2009 in Henry James Shameless Puffs oscar wilde poetry ira lightman katy evans-bush poetry pamphlets rack press
(strange as that sounds…) Look! You can pre-order it! “For Henry, having two countries meant staged risk, and privacy. For Oscar, having the world meant everything bet on the one toss. In a 20’s Modernist trope, this sequence hints...
- an earnest chestnut for Remembrance Day on Nov 11, 2009 in Living With Words Our Crazy World death poetry armistice day guy davenport i think that i shall never see joyce kilmer pacifism poetry magazine remembrance day veterans day war poetry world war one
[Reprised. This post was originally published this day last year. I'm republishing it because I had forgotten it, and have now remembered it, and it stands. Like a tree. I spent half this morning reading a strangely tragic photojournalism piece about...
