The Blu Tack of History
Jenny Diski‘s characteristically pithy LRB blog today on Thatcher’s funeral ends with a quote from Peter Hennessy: ‘More of Margaret Thatcher… will cling to the velcro of our collective memory than any other politician of recent times.’ Velcro’s far too suburban for Brighton, of course, where we prefer to camply flick about grotty balls…
The Great JFB Bookgiveaway: The Snowmelt River
Congratulations to Glen Mehn, winner of last week’s prize The Ravenglass Eye, and many thanks to my Aunt for offering to act as a random number generator (while ironing, yet – the Aunt is nothing but game), saving me from having to run around in a frozen Norfolk field whilst suffering from laryngitis. This week’s offering from Jo Fletcher Books is The Snowmelt River by Frank P.…
Foyle Unfurling …
Welcome, curious reader, to my new website. Though I don’t have an old website so, properly speaking, this is my debut own-URL e-emporium. Here I’ve gathered a record of my work over the last twenty years, from my bouffon opera Hush to my recent verse drama ‘The Strange Wife’. You can read some of my poems, check out the synopsis…