Berfrois

Eli S. Evans: Is That It

Eli S. Evans: Is That It

Thanks, Berfrois...

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Eamonn Wall on Philip Casey

Eamonn Wall on Philip Casey

Philip was a great friend of mine. I loved him like a brother and miss him dearly. My collection of his work is not only a personal treasure...

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‘Mastery of conscience depicts an aptitude for chance’

‘Mastery of conscience depicts an aptitude for chance’

One muses on tactile fabrics as over leaves...

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Douglas Penick on Pierre-Albert Jourdan

Douglas Penick on Pierre-Albert Jourdan

I never knew Pierre-Albert Jourdan, but he was the first person ever to publish my work...

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Arnold Bennett: Who Buys Books?

Arnold Bennett: Who Buys Books?

I want some book-buyers to come forward and at any rate state that they have bought a book, with some account of the adventure...

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Paul Vacca: Unexpected Umberto Eco

Paul Vacca: Unexpected Umberto Eco

Books always give us something different than expected...

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Maybe Lion King not shown in Barrow?

Maybe Lion King not shown in Barrow?

A few years after The Waste Land appeared, Torquemada pioneered the cryptic crossword...

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Trigger Warning: Trauma

Trigger Warning: Trauma

The trauma plot flattens, distorts, reduces character to symptom, and, in turn, instructs and insists upon its moral authority. The solace of its simplicity comes at no little cost...

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Virginia Woolf: c. Dec 1910

Virginia Woolf: c. Dec 1910

On or about December 1910 human character changed...

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Arnold Bennett: Alerter and Curiouser

Arnold Bennett: Alerter and Curiouser

The foundation of good fiction is character-creating, and nothing else...

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Amy Lowell visits the Poetry Bookshop

Amy Lowell visits the Poetry Bookshop

I well remember the first time I went to the Poetry Bookshop. It was in July, 1913...

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Bringing Memories

Bringing Memories

Claude McKay offered in Harlem Shadows a genuinely new sensibility in African American and Black Caribbean arts...

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ID

ID

Whatever my own hesitations, I usually end up challenging the idea that there are things we must not write about, for fear of giving offense...

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100 Years of Ulysses

100 Years of Ulysses

On February 2 2022, Ulysses turns 100...

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Thus Saith the Rhino

Thus Saith the Rhino

‘And’ is superfluous, omissible. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the regulated couplets of Tang poetry...

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Rachel Howard: Paradise Was Ash

Rachel Howard: Paradise Was Ash

The men stayed one year, then another. Where else to go?

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Orwell’s Perfect Boozer

Orwell’s Perfect Boozer

My favourite public-house, the Moon Under Water, is only two minutes from a bus stop, but it is on a side-street...

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