Monthly Archives: April 2026

The diary of a writer-publisher: 37

23 March 2026 Ten days after jotting down the first lines, I type up some verses entitled ‘The Europeans 2019’. I’ve long wanted to write something like it, as a joke, and various recent events triggered it. If you recall, … Continue reading

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‘The Women’ (after Pasternak)

Garden real, not real, mere real, unreal, indivisible for them, their being. Green-gilt catkins hang — then shudder, hurl angelstruck: ‘He is not dead, but living!’ And everything they knew is put aside. A rock may move. Myrrh is not … Continue reading

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