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It is one in the morning. I was sat outside the Coach & Horses for much of the afternoon, in Greek St, Soho, which was absolutely lovely but it does lead to a slightly jaded feeling in the evening… more »
Baroque in Hackneymsbaroque wrote 1 week ago: It is one in the morning. I was sat outside the Coach & Horses for much of the afternoon, in Gre … more »
literary influences: the truth
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msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: Writing about Ladle Rat Rotten Hut the other day, one sentence I wrote reminded me inexorably of an … more »
chace encounters
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msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: It seems to be all chance encounters this week. I was googling that poem that occasionally does the … more »
more animals I'm afraid
msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: To any gentle readers who may have felt at all worried about the emotional state of your corresponde … more »
Steerforth's true life bus shocker
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msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: Recently-sprung Waterstones manager Steerforth, over at The Age of Uncertainty, is already getting n … more »
okay? go.
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msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: The run-down, the rat run, the pointless going-nowhereness of it, the grimness of it all, the daily … more »
a poet attacks: or, what is art for?
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msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: A week of internecine writerly dispute continues: this time, a 72-year-old Nobel laureate of previou … more »
unalloyed elegantly dressed
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msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: What is a poet? What is a Muse? And where do you buy the outfits? I sometimes wonder if you can alwa … more »
’ackney ’aiku
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msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: my kinda guy “Bert Cornell, a stallholder at Bethnal Green market, has been condemned by crit … more »
under the table with Orson Welles
msbaroque wrote 2 months ago: Regular readers may recall that there aren’t as many poems I can recite by heart all the way … more »
conversations of the week
msbaroque wrote 2 months ago: Of course neither of the conversations of the week is anything your correspondent herself has been i … more »
Vogue: the race issue
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msbaroque wrote 2 months ago: We’re really not there yet, are we? “[Anna] Wintour, of course, is no pioneer of equali … more »
the whole problem, again
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msbaroque wrote 3 months ago: Shalom Auslander writes: “I did a book signing last year with a fairly well-known writer who e … more »
elegantly dressed ill temper: a Tuesday special
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msbaroque wrote 3 months ago: So today the British Library publishes a 1953 interview with Evelyn Waugh which is said to be … more »
us, the living
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msbaroque wrote 3 months ago: I know, I know, I shouldn’t do this. The thing adds up as a whole over the whole space of the … more »
no no! Go not to Lethe
msbaroque wrote 3 months ago: “Be pleased then, you, the living, in your delightfully warmed bed, before Lethe’s ice-c … more »
elegantly dressed Richard Price
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msbaroque wrote 3 months ago: He was a Welsh moral philosopher and financial pamphleteer of the eighteenth century, great friends … more »
launch of mobile poetry archive leads to "April madness"
msbaroque wrote 3 months ago: Never a huge fan of April Fool’s Day - I think I took it personally as a child because my birt … more »
just dashing through
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msbaroque wrote 3 months ago: A technical issue at work has yielded this bagatelle from good old Wikipedia. I might add that it is … more »
