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
- stop press: Gary McKinnon huge threat to international security, official on Nov 26, 2009 in America important things politics aspergers syndrome extradition treaty gary mckinnon gary mckinnon extradition gordon brown aspergers ufo theories
This Thanksgiving I am not thankful to hear that the Home Secretary of the UK has denied Gary McKinnon his further right of appeal against his extradition to the US. Not thankful at all. I wanted to blog this ages ago, and I’m not sure why I ne...
- the novel: not just for twits on Nov 26, 2009 in bagatelles the Line on Beauty essays fiction Noveller novels the future of literature zadie smith
My recent post on Zadie Smith’s essay on essays highlighted the strange tension between fiction, and what it does and doesn’t seem to be doing for us – denizens as we are of a restless, confused age. Well, there is clearly something...
- I’m just a poor boy, from a poor family on Nov 24, 2009 in music the past bohemian rhapsody freddie mercury queen
Sorry – I’ve been sick in bed for days! I didn’t even know the date today till about ten minutes ago – and there are still almost ten minutes left – and I never did get to that meditation on the demise of Borders and the...
- the lost spam of sambo on Nov 24, 2009 in Elegantly Dressed Wednesday bagatelles spam tiger in underwear
Oh no! I have accidentally deleted the spam I was saving for a rainy day! There were several good ones, including a name I liked very much, something M. Horvath; but the star was the one called Tiger in Underwear. Beautiful, isn’t it. (It’...
- an essay upon the essay upon the essay on Nov 22, 2009 in Life Living With Words TV books important things samuel johnson the end of the worr-uld the past writing Charles Lamb david shields essays fiction john gardner jonathan franzen life on mars mad men poetry postmodern life reality tv the future of literature zadie smith
So… Zadie Smith is publishing – that is, she has written, so Hamish Hamilton is publishing – a book of essays, and thus has essayed to write an essay about it, which is in yesterday’s Guardian. Most of her essay is about the e...
- musical interlude in a cold season on Nov 21, 2009 in baroqueness opera sleep useless winter Life the cold season whistling work
Oh, arf. I posted this as a draft, and scheduled it to publish today, last week – and then forgot all about it! Sorry fellas. Someone posted it up somewhere and I can now no longer even remember who, for which I am also sorry. Signs of strain,...
- 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.
