Cleopatra and the asp

Cleopatra’s ass

Can I order a large luxury bathful of ass’s milk like our Cleopatra did so I can bathe myself in the white liquid? I suspect I’ll come out in a…

Robert Lowell by Elsa Dorfman

Poor passing facts: Why not say what happened?

Social media hopping led inadvertently to Epilogue by Robert Lowell, a poem that puzzles primarily over the unpredictabilities of poetic technique and poetry’s purpose. Epilogue Those blessèd structures, plot and…

Rolling dice x 3

Snap goes the majority

The Tories haven’t had a significant majority since 1987, 30 years ago, and despite the atmosphere created by the noise from the press, Theresa May has by her own admission…

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