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Statues Missing Chunks
In the
Roman Art wing of who-knows-which museum
ancient torsos are on exhibit some of which
are missing chunks. Time was meticulous in
choosing what to carry off...
Malraux, Camus and the Nobel Prize
André Malraux (1901-76) was born in a bourgeois quarter of Paris, Albert Camus (1913-60) in a working-class district in the provincial Algerian town of...
The Hurt
These days are sadness at its most vivid.
You have, at dawn, at dusk, the prayer call,
the Ezan , the Takbir and the Shahada sung
like...
My London
Venetia Welby is the author of Mother of Darkness, published by Quartet Books, February 2017. This is the twenty-first article in our regular series...
The Past Beneath Our Feet
September in the Rain by Peter Robinson, Holland House, September 2016, 280pp, £11.99 (paperback)
Collected Poems by Peter Robinson, Shearsman Books, February 2017, 518pp, £19.95...
Lenses from Somewhere: A Memory of Ted Hughes
After I reviewed Shakespeare and the Goddess of Complete Being for the TLS, Ted Hughes wrote to me. He was very wounded by the...
The Match Factory
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The advert was in the back of a folded-up newspaper someone had left...
Ha Ha Ha
I didn’t like their album cover
This was long before we met
He teetered to his digs after the gig
Tiptoe boots and a bottom
I’d’ve Traversed Leeds...