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Isobel Dixon , Douglas Robertson & D. H. Lawrence     I.    A couple of nights ago, I went to the National Poetry Library - which, for ...

  Fran Lock in human and hyena form     Fran Lock likes to describe her poetic practice as feral - by which she means "omnivorous, opp...

      "You may know your syntax thoroughly and make no blunders in your grammar,  but it takes that and something more to make a great...

  Damien Hirst: Expulsion (2018)  Butterflies and household gloss on canvas  (84" diameter)     I.    One of my favourite short poems ...

Hello darkness, my old friend - by Niranjan Morkar dribble.com     I.    The three fundamental laws of logic - (i) the law of non-contradict...

Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Autumn (1573)   "I notice that autumn is more a season of the soul than nature ..."      Ever since childho...

I'm not as dumb as you look ... I. I suppose the cognitive ability of mammals and birds is now pretty much an establishe...

Théophile Steinlen's 1896 design for the famous  Parisian nightspot Le Chat Noir Poets, like witches and philosophers, love cat...

Surprisingly, evil isn't an idea that features very often in Lawrence's poetry.  Indeed, prior to the handful of late vers...

Sonia Delaunay and Tristan Tzara Robe poème , Le ventillateur tourne ... (1922) Photo: R. Riss / The Delaunay Estate (Paris) ...

My frail and breaking sister  I hold these memories in my aching arms. I. The Numen of the Part-Human In shifting horror into...

America's most wanted: Ailey O'Toole poet and convicted plagiarist   The poem-as-text is a "multi-dimensional space in...

In a late prose piece, Mallarmé makes the provocative claim that "the ballerina is not a girl dancing ". Indeed, according...

Dr. Ian Bogost: bogost.com   I have to admit, four chapters and 120 pages in, I'm a bit bored with this book by Bogost. The as...