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Monthly Archives: February 2016
OPEN LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Dear Greg Clark We the undersigned are writing to you with an emergency appeal for cultural protection of a Grade 1 Listed Park and Garden. Bunhill Fields on City Road, London EC1Y, is one of only ten parks in London … Continue reading
Posted in Bunhill Fields development, Uncategorized
Tagged Atlas House, Boris Johnson Mayor f London, Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, Claire Palmer, Daniel Defoe, Disseneters Graveyard, Duggan and Morris Developers, Grade 1 Listed Park and Garden, Greg Clark Secretary of State for the Department for Communities and Local Government, Hill Developers, Islington Council, Jet Payne, John Bunyan, Mammon House, Marlowe Chan Reeves, Michael Horovitz, Monmouth House, Moorfields Primary School, Non-Conformists Graveyard, Robinson Crusoe, The Mayor Who Sold London's Skyline, The Pilgrims Progress, White Collar Factory, Will Self Bunhill Fields, William Blake
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POEM IN LIGHTS TO BE SCATTERED IN THE SQUARE MILE
Poetry: Robert Montgomery (Robert Montgomery is the second poet/artist – after Tom Raworth – to make a metaphysical contribution to the petition). Please sign and share: http://www.timeout.com/london/blog/sign-the-petition-to-stop-the-tower-block-development-by-bunhill-fields-021916?
THE MODERNISTS: WERE THEY ANTI-SEMITES?
A unique literary walk in Kensington is set to debate the vexed question of whether or not the giants of literary modernism in England were anti-semitic. Since their heyday in the 10’s, 20’s and 30’s, and especially following WWII, various accusations have … Continue reading
Posted in Modernism, Uncategorized
Tagged Alexis Thompson, Ezra Pound in Kensington, Ezra pound's anti-semitism, James Joyce in Kensington, James Joyce's philosemitism, Kensington Modernists, Literary modernism, niall mcdevitt, Suburban Prejudice, TS Eliot in Kensington, TS Eliot's anti-semitism, Wyndham Lewis in Notting Hill, Wyndham Lewsis's anti-semitism
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120,000 DISSENTERS
dis·sent·er dəˈsen(t)ər/ noun plural noun: dissenters a person who dissents. synonyms: dissident, objector, protester, disputant; More BRITISH historical a member of a nonestablished church; a Nonconformist. noun: Dissenter; plural noun: Dissenters synonyms: dissident, objector, protester, disputant; More There are 120,000 … Continue reading
URIZEN HEIGHTS
The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John’s Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold, And there Jerusalem’s pillars stood. The Mayor of London Boris Johnson receives Urizen’s blessing for his decision to approve … Continue reading
OPEN LETTER TO BORIS JOHNSON
Dear Mayor, I have started an AVAAZ petition to ask you to rethink your approval of the development at Bunhill Fields. It has been rushed through too fast. It is going to be one of your more unpopular decisions and … Continue reading
POETRY LIBRARY SPECIAL EDITION 3/2/2016
A David Gascoyne Celebration was one night in a series run by the Poetry Library called Special Edition. As I was organising this one – with help from Library staff Pascal O’Loughlin and Jessica Atkinson – it definitely began to … Continue reading
TWO TOPOGRAPHERS
Poetopographer Niall McDevitt introducing deep topographer Nick Papadimitriou at A DAVID GASCOYNE CELEBRATION in the Saison Poetry Library. Here is a review of Nick’s book Scarp by a third man: http://www.mythogeography.com/scarp.html Photos: Julie Goldsmith
RUE ROLLIN
Rue Rollin is an ancient pedestrian road in the 5th Arrondissement of Paris near Place Monge metro. I have found out about it because David Gascoyne used to visit a friend at number 6, visible to the right of the … Continue reading
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