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srcset="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Clouds-240524-300x225.jpg 300w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Clouds-240524-150x113.jpg 150w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Clouds-240524.jpg 640w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></p> <h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>I. <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2024/05/cautionary-tales/">Two Cautionary Tales</a> by Simon Collings</strong></span></h3> <p style="text-align: center;">◊</p> <p>The Fish Eye</p> <p>At the bottom of his plate of fish soup Gunther found an eye looking at him. He was horrified. In the local folklore, discovering a fish eye in one’s soup was a worrying omen, and Gunther believed strongly in local lore. He scooped the eye onto his spoon and considered it with trepidation. The large black pupil stared back at him malevolently.</p> <hr /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-design-11-e1716816157603.png"><br /> <img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39411" title="Untitled design (11)" src="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-design-11-e1716816157603-300x294.png" alt="" width="300" height="294" srcset="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-design-11-e1716816157603-300x294.png 300w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-design-11-e1716816157603-750x735.png 750w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-design-11-e1716816157603-150x147.png 150w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-design-11-e1716816157603-768x753.png 768w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-design-11-e1716816157603.png 820w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;">II. <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2024/05/imaginator/">Imaginator</a> by Alan Wall</span></strong></h3> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: seriflight-caps;">◊</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The word has not survived, except in the far reaches of rock music, and some off-beat business ventures. Imaginator. One who makes it all up. The word became entangled in the seventeenth century with the Docetists, which might have led to it being treated warily. The Docetists believed that Jesus was all God; that he impersonated manhood, so as to cheer the rest of us along to redemption. But he was all God really, so he didn’t in truth suffer at all during the Passion and Crucifixion. He was just funning us.</span></p> <hr /> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Donor_portrait_-_A_noble_lady_kneeling_-_Psalter_of_Eleanor_of_Aquitaine_ca._1185_-_KB_76_F_13_folium_028v_cropped.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39357" title="Donor_portrait_-_A_noble_lady_kneeling_-_Psalter_of_Eleanor_of_Aquitaine_(ca._1185)_-_KB_76_F_13,_folium_028v_(cropped)" src="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Donor_portrait_-_A_noble_lady_kneeling_-_Psalter_of_Eleanor_of_Aquitaine_ca._1185_-_KB_76_F_13_folium_028v_cropped-203x300.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="300" srcset="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Donor_portrait_-_A_noble_lady_kneeling_-_Psalter_of_Eleanor_of_Aquitaine_ca._1185_-_KB_76_F_13_folium_028v_cropped-203x300.jpg 203w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Donor_portrait_-_A_noble_lady_kneeling_-_Psalter_of_Eleanor_of_Aquitaine_ca._1185_-_KB_76_F_13_folium_028v_cropped-150x222.jpg 150w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Donor_portrait_-_A_noble_lady_kneeling_-_Psalter_of_Eleanor_of_Aquitaine_ca._1185_-_KB_76_F_13_folium_028v_cropped.jpg 570w" sizes="(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px" /></a></p> <h3 style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, Palatino; font-size: 14pt;">III. <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2024/05/prose-poems-3/">Three Prose Poems</a> by Mélisande Fitzsimons</span></strong></h3> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: seriflight-caps;">◊</span></p> <p>Alone in her Prison Cell, Aliénor d’Aquitaine Reflects on the Randomness of Language and History</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">England, England, land of sputum and spit, I love it. I have always loved your spirit, even when your buttery tongue licked me into near losing the deep fur, felt sounds of my own. Against the plastic colourful surging of Worcester, Gloucester, always talking about the weather, I still carry la fleur, folie, ardeur of my years in o©, ad ho©, o for yes. O: c’est cela, © silent, a sacred yes, it is-o-il est.</p> <hr /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Sir_Walter_Raleigh_Painting-scaled.jpeg"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39344" title="Sir_Walter_Raleigh_Painting" src="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Sir_Walter_Raleigh_Painting-225x300.jpeg" alt="" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Sir_Walter_Raleigh_Painting-225x300.jpeg 225w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Sir_Walter_Raleigh_Painting-750x1000.jpeg 750w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Sir_Walter_Raleigh_Painting-150x200.jpeg 150w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Sir_Walter_Raleigh_Painting-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Sir_Walter_Raleigh_Painting-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Sir_Walter_Raleigh_Painting-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Sir_Walter_Raleigh_Painting-scaled.jpeg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a></h3> <h3 style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;">IV. <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2024/05/sonnets-honour-sir-walter-raleigh/">Five Sonnets in Honour of Sir Walter Raleigh</a> by Richard Berengarten</span></strong></h3> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: seriflight-caps;">Executed on the Scaffold, Westminster, 29 October, 1618.<br /> </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: seriflight-caps;">◊<br /> </span></p> <p style="padding-left: 80px;">He dresses in the Tower</p> <p style="padding-left: 80px;">At five, the priest. The prisoner, confessed,<br /> Cheers up a little, even seeming merry,<br /> Taking his usual care in how he’s dressed,<br /> Stylish as ever, fashionable (very)—<br /> Doublet, hair-hued; taffeta breeches, black;<br /> Waistcoat, embroidered, black; kid gloves, in hand;<br /> Gown, velvet, also black, draped on his back;</p> <hr /> <p> </p> <p><a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Munch_-_Apple_Tree_1920–28_MM.M.00599-2-1-scaled.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39805" title="Apple Tree" src="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Munch_-_Apple_Tree_1920–28_MM.M.00599-2-1-291x300.jpg" alt="" width="291" height="300" srcset="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Munch_-_Apple_Tree_1920–28_MM.M.00599-2-1-291x300.jpg 291w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Munch_-_Apple_Tree_1920–28_MM.M.00599-2-1-750x773.jpg 750w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Munch_-_Apple_Tree_1920–28_MM.M.00599-2-1-150x155.jpg 150w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Munch_-_Apple_Tree_1920–28_MM.M.00599-2-1-768x791.jpg 768w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Munch_-_Apple_Tree_1920–28_MM.M.00599-2-1-1491x1536.jpg 1491w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Munch_-_Apple_Tree_1920–28_MM.M.00599-2-1-1988x2048.jpg 1988w" sizes="(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px" /></a></p> <p> </p> <h3 style="text-align: left;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;">V. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2024/05/anamnesiologist/">The Anamnesiologist</a> by James Peake</span></strong></h3> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: seriflight-caps;">After Susanna Clark.</span></p> <p>◊</p> <p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;"><strong>1.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;">Someone who recovers what’s been lost,<br /> has committed to the steady and dubious art<br /> of unforgetting, ways of being, blind spots<br /> we didn’t know to compensate for, weight…</p> <hr /> <h3></h3> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-2.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39262" title="Untitled" src="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-2-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-2-750x563.jpg 750w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-2-150x113.jpg 150w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Untitled-2.jpg 1600w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></p> <h3><strong>VI. <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2024/05/eclogue/">Two Eclogues</a> by John Wilkinson</strong></h3> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: seriflight-caps;">◊</span></p> <p>Ecologue: Each to Each</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;">The flattened world is incapable of folding its creatures;<br /> <span style="padding-left: 60px;">they enter no burrows, nests</span><br /> cannot raise a rookery aloft amidst spheres of mistletoe,<br /> <span style="padding-left: 60px;">new carrot-top curls subside,<br /> creep along the earth they intrigue and disguise, matted…</span></p> <hr /> <h3></h3> <h3><a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-17.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-39484 size-medium" title="Cave painting, Altamira, Spain © janeb13 / Pixabay" src="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-17-300x244.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="244" srcset="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-17-300x244.jpg 300w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-17-150x122.jpg 150w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-17.jpg 750w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></h3> <h3><strong>VII. <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2024/06/red-2/">Red</a> by Daniel Coyle</strong></h3> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: seriflight-caps;">◊</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">This most ancient of colors, the primal primary, red was the first color humans used, modified, smeared on their bodies, and painted on cave walls. Before ancient languages had words for blue, yellow, green, orange, they had a word for red,<span class="easy-footnote"><a style="color: #800000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" title="" href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2024/06/red-2/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-39557" data-hasqtip="0" aria-describedby="qtip-0"><sup>1</sup></a></span> the color of blood, viscera, our mortal bodies, the life that is in us. The Hebrew אדם (adam) means “son of red earth,” and our word “red” and its cousins (rouge, russet, rust, ruby, ruddy) derive from the Sanskrit word rudhira, meaning “blood.”<span class="easy-footnote"><a style="color: #800000; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" title="" href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2024/06/red-2/?wyp_rand=643532#easy-footnote-bottom-2-39557" data-hasqtip="1" aria-describedby="qtip-1"><sup>2</sup></a></span></p> <hr /> <h3></h3> <p><a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/wessex-poems-and-other-verses-page-181-e688e3.png"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-39098 size-medium" title="Thomas Hardy, illustration on Wessex Poems and Other Verse, 1899." src="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/wessex-poems-and-other-verses-page-181-e688e3-300x127.png" alt="" width="300" height="127" srcset="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/wessex-poems-and-other-verses-page-181-e688e3-300x127.png 300w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/wessex-poems-and-other-verses-page-181-e688e3-150x64.png 150w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/wessex-poems-and-other-verses-page-181-e688e3.png 640w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></p> <h3><strong>VIII. <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2024/06/poetry/">What Is Poetry? </a>by Peter Robinson</strong></h3> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: seriflight-caps;">◊</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;">It had been a long day. Starting before dawn, my wife, Ornella Trevisan, and I had driven down from Reading to be in Dorchester in good time for the beginning of a symposium organised by the Thomas Hardy Society and the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society. Our theme was to explore relations between two writers who had lived large parts of their lives in Dorset. I had written and would present a paper on ‘Hardy and Warner Haunting Graveyards’ which explores similarities and differences in their poetry regarding whether not we are equal in death.</p> <hr /> <p><a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/iStock-1162916951.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter" title="Close your eyes" src="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/iStock-1162916951-300x179.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="179" /></a></p> <p>IX. <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2024/05/tragedy-modern-heist/">Tragedy:</a><a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2024/05/tragedy-modern-heist/"> The</a><a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2024/05/tragedy-modern-heist/"> Modern Heist</a> by Alan Wall</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: seriflight-caps;">◊</span></p> <p>The Tragic Dilemma<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /> </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The gods still lurk in the background of modern tragedy. Characters cock one ear to see if they can make out the congratulation or tears from afar. But they hear nothing, or perhaps they hear the distant sound of laughter. It is not a cheering sound. It is what Samuel Beckett called the mirthless laugh: ‘It is the laugh of laughs, the risus purus, the laugh laughing at the laugh, the beholding, saluting of the highest joke, in a word the laugh that laughs…at that which is unhappy.’ If Aristotle’s requirement for catharsis retains any validity, we are more likely to achieve it in a laugh these days, hollow and silent though it might be.<br /> </span></p> <hr /> <p> </p> <div id="attachment_39184" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-16.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-39184 size-medium" title="©Mathilde Bonnefoy, 1990." src="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-16-300x198.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="198" srcset="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-16-300x198.jpg 300w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-16-750x496.jpg 750w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-16-150x99.jpg 150w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-16-768x508.jpg 768w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-16.jpg 1387w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a></p> <p class="wp-caption-text">©Mathilde Bonnefoy, 1990.</p> </div> <h3><strong>X. <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2024/05/lastpoems/">Last Poems</a> by Béatrice Douvre, trans. by John Taylor</strong></h3> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: seriflight-caps;">◊</span></p> <p>Farewell to inset words, to glorious words.<br /> Here, a place drunk with blossoming, the enameled field of living. The green water is a face effaced by confines.</p> <p style="padding-left: 80px;"><em>Adieu aux mots sertis, aux mots de gloire.</em><br /> <em>Ici, le lieu ivre de floraisons, le champ émaillé de vivre. L’eau verte est un visage qu’effacent les confins.</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: seriflight-caps;">◊</span><em><br /> </em></p> <p style="text-align: center;">Béatrice Douvre (1967–94) was a poet and artist who passed like a comet through the sky of French literature. At the age of thirteen, she began suffering from anorexia, an affliction against which she would struggle throughout her short lifetime. Despite her illness, she managed to study French literature at the University of Nanterre, where she completed a masters thesis under the direction of her professor, the poet Gabrielle Althen, about “anorexia and orexia in the Rimbaud’s oeuvre,” and then a D.E.A. thesis about “color in Yves Bonnefoy’s poetic oeuvre.” Also under Althen’s supervision, she was engaged in writing a doctoral thesis about Pierre Jean Jouve when she died from exhaustion and a heart attack on a train on 19 July 1994. At the time, she had published only a few poems, beginning in 1991, in various literary reviews, but some three hundred poems were found among her papers, as well as a diary<em>,</em> <em>Journal de Belfort.</em></p> <p><a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image004-5.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-39005 size-medium" title="©Estate of Béatrice Douvre." src="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image004-5-192x300.jpg" alt="" width="192" height="300" srcset="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image004-5-192x300.jpg 192w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image004-5-750x1172.jpg 750w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image004-5-150x234.jpg 150w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image004-5-768x1200.jpg 768w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image004-5-983x1536.jpg 983w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image004-5.jpg 1245w" sizes="(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px" /></a></p> <hr /> <h3 style="text-align: left;"><strong>XI. <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2024/06/endangered-antiquarian/">Endangered Antiquarian</a> by Will Stone</strong></h3> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: seriflight-caps; font-size: 12pt;">A Requiem for the Old Bookshops of Europe.</span><strong><br /> </strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: seriflight-caps;">◊</span></p> <p><a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-15.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39171" title="image001" src="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-15-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" srcset="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-15-225x300.jpg 225w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-15-750x1000.jpg 750w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-15-150x200.jpg 150w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/image001-15.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><em>One by one, like lights going out in an office building at dusk, antiquarian bookshops are dying out across Europe, but who is even aware of the implications of this decline apart from their struggling owners and that minority of dedicated bibliophiles who still valiantly support them? The redoubtable secondhand bookshop, that last haven of the fatefully handed-down tome, was once a familiar sight in every English market town, but over the previous decade or so, their numbers have plummeted. </em></p> <hr /> <p style="text-align: center;">♦</p> <hr /> <p style="text-align: center;">Anthony Howell reviews <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2024/05/indian-jungle/"><em>The Indian Jungle</em> by Sudhir Kakar</a></p> <p style="padding-left: 40px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/81QOK-sAAVL._SL1500_.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-39190" title="81QOK-sAAVL._SL1500_" src="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/81QOK-sAAVL._SL1500_-199x300.jpg" alt="" width="199" height="300" srcset="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/81QOK-sAAVL._SL1500_-199x300.jpg 199w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/81QOK-sAAVL._SL1500_-750x1130.jpg 750w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/81QOK-sAAVL._SL1500_-150x226.jpg 150w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/81QOK-sAAVL._SL1500_-768x1157.jpg 768w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/81QOK-sAAVL._SL1500_.jpg 996w" sizes="(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px" /></a><br /> <span style="font-family: seriflight-caps;">Karnac Books, 2o24 | 9781915565204 (paperback); 9781915565181 (e-book) | <span class="a-price" data-a-size="xl" data-a-color="base"><span aria-hidden="true"><span class="a-price-symbol">£19.99<br /> </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;">◊</p> <p>From the word go Sudhir Kakar’s book on psychoanalysis and non-Western civilizations promises to be entertaining as well as enlightening. Initially he points out that most of our knowledge on how human beings feel, think and act is derived from a small subset of the world’s population which he identifies by the acronym WEIRD—Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic. 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By George Basset (H. R. Haxton).<br /> <b>2012: </b><a href="http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/invention">The Invention of the Modern World</a> in 18 parts. By Alan Macfarlane.<br /> <b>2013: </b><a href="http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2013/11/helen-2013-serial/">Helen</a> in three long parts. By Oswald Valentine Sickert.<br /> <b>2016: </b><a href="http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2016/10/survival-manual-preface/">The Survival Manual</a> by Alan Macfarlane. 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All enquiries: 0208 801 8577</p> <p><b>Poetry London</b>: Current listings <a href="http://poetrylondon.co.uk/listings/">here.</a><br /> <b>Shearsman readings</b>: 7:30pm at Swedenborg Hall, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1. Further details <a href="http://www.shearsman.com/shearsman-reading-events">here</a>.</p> <p><b>NEW YORK</b></p> <p>10 <a href="https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/new-york-city/articles/10-places-to-experience-poetry-readings-in-nyc/">reliable poetry venues</a> in NYC.</p> </div> <div class="textwidget"> <hr /> </div> <div><a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/calamotopslug1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8046" title="By Michael Blackburn." src="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/calamotopslug1.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="30" /></a></div> <div><a class="cat-post-title" href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2023/09/wall-world-live-in/" rel="bookmark">The world we live in.</a></div> <div><a class="cat-post-title" href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2023/07/howell-jenkins-sea/" rel="bookmark">Alan Jenkins at sea.</a></div> <div><a class="cat-post-title" href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2023/06/wall-lexicon-labyrinth/" rel="bookmark">Each lexicon a labyrinth.</a></div> <div><a class="cat-post-title" href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2023/05/collings-small-stuff/" rel="bookmark">On the small stuff.</a></div> <div><a class="cat-post-title" href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2023/05/wandor-baddiel/" rel="bookmark">Baddiel’s divine desire.</a></div> <div><a class="cat-post-title" href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2021/07/gangsters-politicians-marseille/" rel="bookmark">Gangsters and Politicians.</a></div> <div><a class="cat-post-title" href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2021/06/ugo-wave/" rel="bookmark">Ugo and the waves.</a></div> <div><a class="cat-post-title" href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2021/05/holiday-holiday/" rel="bookmark">Holiday? 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