Monthly Archives: March 2012
Death of and Unsigned Band by Tim Thornton
Death Of an Unsigned Band by Tim Thornton (www.vintage-books.co.uk) Yes I bought this book on the strength of the title that made me pick it off the shelf and a front page that bears the legend “Death of an unsigned … Continue reading
Two poems inspired by art at The Dulwich Picture Gallery
Extreme Unction by N. Poussin 1637-40 Extreme Unction is applied to his eyes,The doctor in orange robes presses his eyes,All around the bed the sick mans family prays,Woe and worry in case extreme unction is not enough,The scribe kneels taking … Continue reading
Hack by James Wells
Hack by James Wells (www.clinicalitypress.co.uk) Well this is a first for me a review for a book that is out on Kindle only or as a special order book at the moment from the excellent folks at Clinicality press who … Continue reading
The Sea Is My Brother the lost novel by Jack Kerouac
The Sea Is My Brother The Lost Novel by Jack Kerouac ( http://www.penguinclassics.com) Yes finally it is out Jack Kerouacs first novel The Sea Is my Brother written in 1942 and finally published in 2011, which of course begs the … Continue reading
Xpo Salvador Dali Marquis De Pubol, Belfort Brugge
Poems inspired by Museum-Gallery Xpo Salvador Dali Marquis De Pubol Belfort BruggeNote these two poems are inspired by series of lithographs rather than one individual paining. Casanova Memoirs 1967 by Dali Woman ravaged by a lobster pincers in her hair,Head … Continue reading
Poems inspired by the art at Expo Pablo Picasso>Joan Miro Site Oud Sint Jan
Poems inspired by the art at Expo Pablo Picasso > Joan Miro Site Oud Sint-Jan Dove Of Peace 10.10.52. By Pablo Picasso Dove stands wings stretched,Feathers and plumage detailed in pencil,He is almost rampant in black and white,Standing on a … Continue reading
Groeninge Museum poems inspired by the art
Groeninge Museum Poems inspired by the art. Last Judgement by Heronimus Bosch 1500-05 Jesus sits Buddha like apon a globe high in the sky,Beneath a city burns people fight,Body being eaten by priestess,Man escapes in shoe turned into a boat,Man … Continue reading
St Pancras To Bruges
St Pancras To Bruges Departure lounge in the undercroft,Where once prostitues and dealers prowled,Leaving the gothic splendour,Through the Camley Street nature park,Passing the building site of the new Kings Cross quarter, Through the first tunnel under north and east London,Emerging … Continue reading
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