Blogs about: Bagatelles

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msbaroque 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 »

Tags: Living With Words

literary influences: the truth1 comment

msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: Writing about Ladle Rat Rotten Hut the other day, one sentence I wrote reminded me inexorably of an … more »

Tags: Living With Words, Poetry, The meaning of life

chace encounters2 comments

msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: It seems to be all chance encounters this week. I was googling that poem that occasionally does the … more »

Tags: la famille Baroque, Living With Words

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 »

Tags: Art

Steerforth's true life bus shocker1 comment

msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: Recently-sprung Waterstones manager Steerforth, over at The Age of Uncertainty, is already getting n … more »

Tags: Life, Books

okay? go.3 comments

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 »

Tags: Music, Happy

a poet attacks: or, what is art for?4 comments

msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: A week of internecine writerly dispute continues: this time, a 72-year-old Nobel laureate of previou … more »

Tags: Poetry, schadenfreude

unalloyed elegantly dressed3 comments

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 »

Tags: Poetry, la famille Baroque, Elegantly Dressed Wednesday

’ackney ’aiku1 comment

msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: my kinda guy “Bert Cornell, a stallholder at Bethnal Green market, has been condemned by crit … more »

Tags: London, Living With Words

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 »

Tags: Poetry, la famille Baroque

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 »

Tags: Books, Clothes, Coffee, Irish, James Joyce, New York, Parties, Pseuds' Corner

Vogue: the race issue2 comments

msbaroque wrote 2 months ago: We’re really not there yet, are we? “[Anna] Wintour, of course, is no pioneer of equali … more »

Tags: Our Crazy World, schadenfreude

the whole problem, again1 comment

msbaroque wrote 3 months ago: Shalom Auslander writes: “I did a book signing last year with a fairly well-known writer who e … more »

Tags: Living With Words, Useless

elegantly dressed ill temper: a Tuesday special2 comments

msbaroque wrote 3 months ago: So today the British Library publishes a 1953 interview with Evelyn Waugh which is said to be … more »

Tags: the Line on Beauty, Books, Our Crazy World, Living With Words, Elegantly Dressed Wednesday, The past...

us, the living1 comment

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 »

Tags: The Movies, the Line on Beauty, Dogs

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 »

Tags: The Movies, the Line on Beauty

elegantly dressed Richard Price2 comments

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 »

Tags: Our Crazy World, Poetry

just dashing through2 comments

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 »

Tags: the Line on Beauty, Living With Words