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write more, fail better: the Baroque unblocking system 2009-01-06 06:33:46 Writing, at least the hard kind, is hard. We all know that. It’s hard to keep going, but even harder to get going.
Meanwhile, the Samuel Beckett quote of the past couple of days (”Try again. Fail again. Fail better
”) won’t leave me alone. It seems to be some kind of horribly satirical code for my [...] Read more:Baroque
me and the age of uncertainty 2009-01-05 17:15:33 The wintry Me and the Dead blog tour goes on a little holiday. We are departing from the advertised itinerary to bring Steerforth, at The Age of Uncertainty, back from the bosom of his family and blinking into the full sunlight of the Salt experience. But look how he thinks he can behave! What kind [...]
an inspirational story for the new year 2009-01-04 08:14:50 In my last post - no, last-but-one - I said I wanted to care less and fail better. That was an allusion to the famous quote from Samuel Beckett, which goes: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
Of course we all want to succeed, and we all need to eat, [...] Read more:story
squander not the new year… 2009-01-04 06:45:12 … but go to Squandermania (and other foibles). I don’t know how Don does it. Recent posts up there are a sequence of wonderful snippets, inspired trains of thought, witty pictures. He’s clearly had a much more inspired Yuletide than I have.
On that note, he’s made me want this collected poems of Jack Spicer book [...]
the seven things at the year’s cusp* 2009-01-03 08:45:03 … and each like a Samurai?
Before getting on with 2009 I thought I might do that same as last year, and list the seven Baroque successes of 2008, once more exposing my workings to the raw air of the world in a way I can only hope may be at least enjoyable or edifying for [...] Read more:things
it’s instantaneous 2009-01-02 15:40:28 You have to wonder. Five days after the current bombing of Gaza begins, “award-winning poet” Sean O’Brien publishes a poem “in response” in today’s Guardian. If it’s instantaneous responses we’re after, I may as well come straight on here and take issue with this bizarre bagatelle right now. May as well rush into 2009 with [...]
2008: exit, stage left 2009-01-02 13:36:02 As if by stealth it’s gone. Two days late we find ourselves here in the Baroque Annexe (south) assessing 2008 and looking bravely - very bravely - ahead at 2009. It’s the annual stocktaking any sensible person dreads, but it must be done.
Now, this is ostensibly a books - specifically a poetry-oriented - blog, but [...]
god love us one and all 2008-12-31 14:44:23 Thanks to Tim Wells for the idea. I was hoping to get a clip from the original Scarface, with Paul Muni, but this is surprisingly similar.
Thanks so much for sticking by us here at the Baroque hearthside in 2008, and here’s to a bumper 2009!
xxx
chained 2008-12-31 04:38:24 Ch-ch-ch-chaaains…!
Look at this ethereally beautiful image. Here’s how bad it’s got. I just saw this photograph on the Guardian website and it only made me groan. “Oh, God. Maybe I should go to the park.”
Is it likely to happen? Today, I mean? No.
It’s Christmas! I mean it’s the New Year! Have I read a book, [...]
Dew Drop Inn: we’re at the Poetry Hut 2008-12-30 09:06:17 A day late - but that’s a technicality, with the time zone difference - I’m at the Poetry
Hut blog for my Cyclone book tour, going all serious with Jilly Dybka down in Tennessee. Jilly’s blog is a compendium of poetry news and related items of interest, and if you are interested in keeping up [...]
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