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When I Think All Hope Has Gone — R.I.P. Adrian Mitchell
Adrian Mitchell has died. His The Oxford Hysteria of English Poetry is seriously funny: Then suddenly — WOOMF — It was the Ro-man-tic Re-viv-al And it didn’t matter how you wrote, All the public wanted was a hairy great image. … Continue reading
Either I’m Nobody, Or I’m A Nation
Oh, my president-elect crush burns strong: Barack Obama seen with poetry collection. Of course it’s not just any old poetry collection, it is Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems. A Nobel Prize laureate; a Caribbean poet straddling colonialism, post-colonialism, and the Western … Continue reading
Post-Election Fatigue
Yesterday I knitted this hat whilst I was waiting for the election results to come in from the US. I was sewing on the flower when Obama was declared president elect. I have no idea what to do with the … Continue reading
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Drinking Tea Will Muddle Your Brain
Sometimes I worry that Domestic Bliss has ruined my ice-cold demeanour and unsentimental outlook on life. To wit, I am sitting here with a lump in my throat after stumbling across this: For me the most moving moment came when … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th century literature, autumn, Bibliophilia, election 2008, geek, Glasgow, Personal, politics, reading
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How are YOU Doin’?!
Thanks to Tina who’s still in academia (and thus has access to Project MUSE and I’m not at all envious of this), I have learned that F. Scott Fitzgerald had many talents: “In the collection of his papers at Princeton … Continue reading
