Author Archives: Derek Turner

To Hylas M. W. DAVIS

To Hylas M.W. Davis They don’t know what to make of all this flesh, The clear blue eyes, as nature intended. With no such charm to keep those dark locks fresh Someday he’ll wade the pool to cool his joints. … Continue reading

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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

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Clinton II – revenge of the weird sisters ILANA MERCER

Clinton II – revenge of the weird sisters ILANA MERCER’s heart sinks at the prospect of President Hillary Hillary Rodham Clinton has done some “conscious uncoupling” from reality. The term was disgorged by a celebrity, Gwyneth Paltrow, to announce a … Continue reading

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Convenient amnesia – airbrushing the history out of History FERGUS DOWNIE

Convenient amnesia – airbrushing the history out of History FERGUS DOWNIE recalls an unjustifiably revered and self-deluding historian Historians, as Khrushchev once observed, are dangerous people, but how could this be otherwise when they are entrusted with a power that … Continue reading

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Subduction HAMISH WOOD

Subduction HAMISH WOOD   Elihu fronts the storm.   behold, I am vile.   something moves. revolutions of the air. rain has this smell. static. the world, too, is electric. the world, too, is moving. then, the Lord answered Job, … Continue reading

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To Richard II M.W. DAVIS

To Richard II M. W. Davis   Which hooligan would think to scrawl that name Across the soundwalls of the M40? Let sleeping tragedy lie. What a shame They couldn’t stay awake in English class.   What’s the half-life now … Continue reading

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Failure to return BILL HARTLEY

  Failure to return BILL HARTLEY finds that today’s prison staff are sometimes more constrained than their charges The recent abscond of a high profile prisoner from Stanford Hill open prison is nothing new. Each year there are a steady … Continue reading

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Crumbling Wall ROBERT HENDERSON

Crumbling Wall ROBERT HENDERSON compares and contrasts two revealing films about high finance Wall Street (!987) Director Oliver Stone The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) Director Martin Scorsese Twenty six years lie between Wall Street and The Wolf of Wall … Continue reading

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Pre-Renaissance Man HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS

Pre-Renaissance Man HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS is impressed by an audacious re-imagining of medieval thought Inventing the Individual – The Origins of Western Liberalism Larry Siedentop, London: Allen Lane, 2014, 448 pps Larry Siedentop’s introduction gets straight to the point. We have … Continue reading

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ENDNOTES – English music renewed STUART MILLSON

ENDNOTES – English music renewed STUART MILLSON relishes four world premieres at the English Music Festival The English Music Festival’s first concert took place in the autumn of 2006. An ambitious undertaking by its founder, Em Marshall-Luck, the Festival set … Continue reading

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