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Penwith Poetry politics

Ugly white tower

In Munich coming out of the U bahn,

past the notice about the Putsch,

a magnificent sheathed building appeared.

On the white  coverall an elaborate printed design so

passersbuy might see the final construction

the architecture already inspiring.

Lloyd’s Bank, Penzance has looked shabby and  shrouded for weeks.

The overall possibly reminding

pedestrians of the Bibby Stockholm.

Game On meets Auntie May in the advertising.

Rather a “temple” of Mammon, a monument to cut price aesthetics

and ponder the paradox.  

Has anything been learnt in one   hundred and one years.

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Book Reviews Literature Poetry politics

“For Helping a Passerby”: Vladislav Ellis’s Hungry Years

I’ve let two months go by without sharing a single thing here, which is very much unlike me. And there have been things to share, like fresh translations of Vernon Duke in Arc and of Julia Nemirovskaya in The Queens Review, as well as news about other projects, like my completion of Alexander Voloshin’s mock […]

“For Helping a Passerby”: Vladislav Ellis’s Hungry Years
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Book Reviews politics

Cherries from Catalonia

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Book Reviews German Matters politics

Grossman’s Stalingrad

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Generation Snowflake? – Why Are Young People Moving Out So Late?

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Book Reviews politics

Similarities with Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup?

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Art and Photographic History politics Psychoanalysis

Greed/Need;working towards Klein’s Depressive Position

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Book Reviews Film politics

Winter Love by Han Suyin

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Book Reviews German Matters politics

A uniquely personal review of a key Historical Text

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Film politics

Not ‘high’ culture, but a culture of camaraderie