Wrestling Emily Dickinson

' Personally, I believe that England is an island.' - Ian Botham, discussing the EU referendum I believe that England is an is...

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. I see Christopher Biggins has once more made an oaf of himself by airing...

The Blue Carpet has seen better days. Thomas Heatherwick’s  Blairite folly outside the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle still curls up witti...

Grotesque ‘Fucking grotesque’ – message on dating site from ‘marcus69shh’ Grotesque does not mean ugly: it means hybridity, incon...

I met a traveller from an antic land who said: 'A solitary baseball cap lies in the crater. Near it, on the ground, the wreckage of a po...

(fairly obviously after  W.B. Yeats ) Turning and turning in the media cycle's Discordant broadcast vortex, things fall apart; the ...

Time was, a fella knew he knew the score: knew what was kosher, spotted what was bobbins. but who's to say what’s Waltish anymore, n...