Blogs about: Living With Words
an essay upon the essay upon the essay
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msbaroque wrote 6 days ago: So… Zadie Smith is publishing – that is, she has written, so Hamish Hamilton is publishi … more →
an era ends, and another begins
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msbaroque wrote 1 week ago: Okay well it isn’t very poetic but your correspondent here has been very busy the past few day … more →
finders keepers? the clash of intellectual property and a venerable poetic tradition
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msbaroque wrote 2 weeks ago: Ausonius declaiming someone else’s words a long time ago Fortunately news moves slowly in the … more →
to find oneself: the Alan Bennett way
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msbaroque wrote 2 weeks ago: Basically, you look inside your work. (I should think this is good as a measure of both the self you … more →
newsflash: Larkin smiles
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msbaroque wrote 3 weeks ago: Okay, this has just come my way, literally a few minutes ago. Sweetshop territory: I’d never h … more →
my spam (as performed by the Goons)
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msbaroque wrote 3 weeks ago: I swear to God these are, word for word, the three spam messages sitting in my spam inbox right now … more →
the literary life: with a little help from my friends
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msbaroque wrote 4 weeks ago: Laetitia Pilkington and the Hellfire Club Can you imagine. I was asked to send some poems for consid … more →
when is it a poem? when is it prose?
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msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: Okay, I’m back. And I’m being asked to talk about what the difference is between prose a … more →
awesome: death of a word
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msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: The death of a word is not pretty. And now, with the internet and everything, what one would once ha … more →
Friday in haste
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msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: Okay, I’ve had the runner’s high, and I’ve had the runner’s low… I … more →
have a break: get to work.
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msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: PG Wodehouse (there on the right; isn’t he cute?) “wrote his first story aged five. When … more →
cultural hash
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msbaroque wrote 1 month ago: What a couple of days this has been! First the Booker – to Hilary Mantel for a huge fat novel … more →
going for Baroque, once again
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msbaroque wrote 2 months ago: Okay. I have shaken off a simply enormous, terrifying, slobbery black dog, and I am going for a swim … more →
happy birthday Mr Eliot
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msbaroque wrote 2 months ago: Here he is, as I’m in a ghostly mood this week: the spectre that looms over us all - ‘f … more →
save the words again
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msbaroque wrote 2 months ago: This is the sort of stuff I was talking about the other week! Of course, who do we have to thank for … more →
Wilde, Donaghy and Mlle B's cake
msbaroque wrote 2 months ago: Radio silence. I’m on a deadline, hello Jane, plus very busy putting together the advanced poe … more →
a place for everything and everything in its place
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msbaroque wrote 2 months ago: Here’s a sentence. Do we think Mr Sharp is right? If English Poetry is in danger–and, ac … more →
where to find me
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msbaroque wrote 2 months ago: 1. At the Lemon Monkey Café in Stoke Newington High St, tomorrow night. Come at 6.30 to get drinks i … more →
why you should love writers
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msbaroque wrote 2 months ago: The Text Pixie speaks. (Basically, it’s because writers are lovely.) Go on. Be nice to a write … more →
