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Ambrosial Lucubrations
Ambrosial Lucubrations A Modern Journey eBook: Derek Turner: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store Also available in paperback Reviewed by James Connor It seems like the fun jaunts I had through Dublin go way back to J.P. Donleavy, and maybe I just haven’t … Continue reading
Running on Empty
Running on Empty Robert Henderson enjoys Derek Turner’s Displacement In his last work Sea Changes Derek Turner presented a large canvas on which he painted both the predicament of the illegal immigrant and a Britain afflicted with a paralysing political … Continue reading
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New Light on the Magical Realist
New Light on the Magical Realist Dimitris Yeros photographing Gabriel García Márquez Dimitris Yeros, foreword by Edward Lucie-Smith, Bielefeld: Kerber, 2015, 136pps., 36 Euros, www.yeros.com Dimitris Yeros is a justly celebrated photographer and artist based in Athens. Edward Lucie-Smith is a highly-regarded … Continue reading
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Posturing, positioning and electioneering
Posturing, positioning and electioneering Derek Turner anticipates a possible transformation of the political landscape As the general election campaign limps into its last months, politicians have been working hard to sway what is expected to be an unusually unpredictable race. … Continue reading
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Tagged David Cameron, Derek Turner, Ed Milliband, Natalie Bennett, Nigel Farage
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The Rise of the Dominatrix
The Rise of the Dominatrix Derek Turner’s take on Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher Margaret Thatcher: Not for Turning, Charles Moore, London: Allen Lane, 2013, 859 pp When Margaret Thatcher died last April, the obsequies were at times almost drowned out … Continue reading
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Conquest by other means
Conquest by other means Robert Henderson lauds Derek Turner’s latest novel Sea Changes, Derek Turner, Washington Summit Publishers, Washington, ISBN 978-1-59368-002-2, 2nd edition, 2014 The time is somewhere around the present: the place is England. Thirty-seven bodies wash-up on the … Continue reading
Oblivion’s grace DEREK TURNER
Oblivion’s grace DEREK TURNER In the deadness of Dove Wing Mrs. Martindale waits – For a Balt with an assortment of jars. She’s a bird that has fallen, Crashed into this place, This carpeted cage without bars. Stunned into quiescence, … Continue reading
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Displays DEREK TURNER
Displays DEREK TURNER Black-brown stinking sty Rising green Camomile. Bright Red Arrows fly – Great writings Scraped high. This breathless July – Do these things Signify?
Testing for humanity – The Plague Dogs revisited DEREK TURNER
Testing for humanity The Plague Dogs (book 1977, film 1982) DEREK TURNER revisits an animal rights classic I came across by chance recently a DVD of The Plague Dogs, a 1982 animation of Richard Adams’ bestselling 1977 novel. I was … Continue reading
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Tagged animal experimentation, animal rights, Derek Turner, Plague Dogs, Richard Adams, vivisection
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Down Mexico way DEREK TURNER
Down Mexico way DEREK TURNER reads a fictional evocation of US-Mexican borderline personality disorder The Education of Hector Villa Chilton Williamson, Jr., Rockford, Illinois: Chronicles Press, 2012, pb. 208 “Roads fade out before you reach the line, And the signposts … Continue reading