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7 Apr 2026

Transforming Memory into Memoir (and Memoir into Money)

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(MDG Media International, 2019)     'One does not write with one's ego, one's memory, or one's illnesses ...'     I.   T...
19 Feb 2026

Retromania: Reviewed and Reassessed - Part 3: Then (Chapters 6-9)

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Simon Reynolds:  Retromania   - cover of the US edition (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2011)     I.   So, here we are at page 183 and still no...
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23 Oct 2024

It's Your Verses That We Want and Your Verses We Shall Have! Notes on Plagiarism, Piracy, and Found Poetry

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  'Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take,  and good poets make it into something better, or at le...
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3 Mar 2024

A Blast From the Past

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Wyndham Lewis photographed by George Charles Beresford in 1913 Front cover of the first edition of his Vorticist magazine Blast (1914)   ...
15 May 2022

Notes on Crosby and Crane: Pin-Up Boys of the Lost Generation

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Harry Crosby (1898-1929) and Hart Crane (1899-1932)   La plus volontaire mort c'est la plus belle.     I.    The initials HC mean diffe...
7 Feb 2021

Lobster Variations (I - IV)

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Nobuyuki Shimamura: Fantasy Lobster (2013) Hoki Museum Collection, Chiba, Japan    I.   Such is my fascination with lobsters at the moment ...
5 Feb 2018

In Memory of Joris-Karl Huysmans (and His Bejewelled Tortoise)

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Caricature of J-K Huysmans (1885) To be honest, I increasingly find that I have to be in a very particular frame of mind to read 19t...
27 Aug 2017

On the Joy of Metaphysical Conceit (With Reference to John Donne's 'The Flea')

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John Donne (1572-1631): The Flea   (First published posthumously in 1633)   Whilst it's true that I don't like conceite...