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Bright Red Poppy (SA/2021)     This morning, a large bright red poppy has burst into flame at the top of my garden and it naturally trigger...

Salvador Dalí: The Enigma of Hitler  (1939) Oil on canvas (95 x 141 cm) Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia I. A lot ...

I. Voir Vence et Mourir There are not many places in the world I would like to visit, but the small medieval market town of Vence, o...

Anne Van Der Linden: Le bas blanc (2013) annevanderlinden.net I. We have already discussed how Elsie is a prick tease in pearl...

Multi-wasp jumper (black) A Child of the Jago It's my birthday ... But, if I'm honest, the receiving of a gift cause...

Honor Blackman as Mrs Fawcett in The Virgin and the Gypsy   dir. Christopher Miles (1970) An angry email arrives in my inbox (not f...

Simon Solomon (aka Dr Simon Thomas) simonsolomon.ink   Dublin-based poet, critic and translator, Simon Solomon, has been kind eno...

Jeremy Meeks: the model prisoner who stole a million hearts Following a recent post on criminals and capital punishment [click...

Floraphilia   YouTube (2009)   Flowering plants don't just grow in soil: they are also rooted in our hearts and blossom in ...

She's done it again. My mother: Lady Lazarus. Back from the hospital, back from the brink. A sort of slow-walking miracle, With...

Bowie makes good his disappearance in the video  for Lazarus  (dir. Johan Renck, 2016) The poet and critic Simon Solomon is right...

Mushrooms - Sylvia Plath , by petropicto on deviantart.com http://petropicto.deviantart.com/art/Mushrooms-Sylvia-Plath-417454440     ...

  Photo by Annabel Mehran from a fashion spread entitled  'Last Words' in the 2013 Fiction Issue of Vice Magazine. Styled ...

Gathered here are six little fragments of text written in remembrance of authors who have, at one time or another, meant something sp...

I began to talk like a Jew. I think I may well be a Jew. I think I know what she means.  And I think that, like Sylvia, I mig...