Cherry Cola Juliet
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Not down in old Soho |
Labels: 21st Century Romance, Black Spring Press, Dating, London Scene, Love Story, Mara Nkere, Poetry, Post Pandemic, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
"You might be clever sonny Jim but you can't outwit your heart." John Stiles
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Not down in old Soho |
Labels: 21st Century Romance, Black Spring Press, Dating, London Scene, Love Story, Mara Nkere, Poetry, Post Pandemic, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
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Fall of Troy |
There are serious undertones into these darker epochs as the author describes the nonchalant rise of power in Vienna of a failed art student by the name of Adolph and this insight into cultural and historical Vienna, Prague, Bucharest and other parts of Europe re-visited from the 60's till now describe a scholar and soul who is not blind to the atrocities humans commit in the face of the most civilised, noble or religious pursuits. Moseley's writes about Franciscan Friar Michele De Cunheo on the Columbus mission to St Croix in Antigua in the seventeenth century and the research is singularly harrowing and critical of man's willingness to indulge in sadistic pleasure.
Equally adept at mining a darker theme, the philosophical style also serves to ridicule the emptiness of the pursuit of power and a comic aside (of which there are many) imagines the lonely Greek gecko as if a childless old man, who 'contemplates whatever geckos contemplate'.
Fans of an off beat travelogue will not be disappointed. There is loads which will appeal to those who look for clues and secrets of ancient civilisations on obelisks hidden in the museums and libraries of the Bizantine era. Also there is an understated but mordant British wit and irony in this book including how friendly local Cretans in Greece preferred Brits to German tourists in the 1960's.
Moseley can sometimes get carried away with digressions but this is all part of the charm and we feel that we are in the hands of a wry observer but also a passionate and spiritual man on a quest for understanding life through history and world travel. Equally important is this role as a Cambridge scholar and poet who continually pushes to understand more.
In much the same way Claire Tomalin cast her meticulous eye towards Charles Dickens in 'A Life', Mosley shares his own inimitable interest in life in 'Hungry Heart Roaming'.
Labels: Black Spring Press, Cambridge University, Catholicism, Charles Moseley, Classics, Greek Theology, Lancashire Fens, Medieval Renaissance Literature, Memoir, Orthodox Religion, Philosophy, Rowan Wiliams
Extracts of reader comments from ‘Me and Lio’ up to the quarterfinals of the 2020 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting in Los Angeles. Valued feedback and for those who have tried to adapt a short story to screenplay. #nichollfellowship
The Stations of the Cross
(for Fr Phillip Lemon,
Our Lady of The Assumption, Bethnal Green, London)
By Mike Parsons
“After the first death, there is no other.” Dylan Thomas
1.Jesus Is Condemned To Death
We adore thee O Christ and we praise you, because by your Holy Cross you have redeemed the world.
“ after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the
doctors”
Luke 2. 41-52
Death. Do I fear it? I am terrified,
but there are moments, when in giving, you gain the incalculable.
So much is wrong, so much
unnecessary.
Let me give.
We live lives dedicated to
change.
“Ce petit
monde est a refaire” says
Emmanuelle Billoteaux
(This little world must be remade).
Who is to blame?
We can talk of specifics.
We should not talk of blame, but
of understanding,
Evaluation.
We must identify the problems.
I take a walk with Christine's
children in Umoja, Nairobi.
Flowers grow along the path;
purple and yellow.
The corn has been harvested
though there are still some ripening.
The whole field has been
cultivated since I was here lst October,
Women were preparing the ground
then, and planting.
They have worked well.
Some people are secure with their
money and posessions.
Do they care only for themselves?
What Impels?
Please, help us with our lives.
Help us overcome our faults,
understand and change.
Forgive us our trespasses.
Lord Jesus, you are condemned to
death a million times by greed and self-interest.
By power compounded with fear
in this vicious cycle of
survival.
Condemned to death
and yet going beyond death.
Unstoppable.
You will not die,
“I will not die”.
We are left with the question, “Why
does life destroy life
Why destroy that which will take the fear away?”
But their fear is not our fear.
We are not our bodies,
We are more than our minds,
more that our sense of “I”,
Tyranical, fragile, fearful…
Labels: Bethnal Green, East Beat, East End, East London, Faith Poems, Hackney, Mike Parsons, Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Poetry, Spoken word
Labels: BAME, BAME community, Black Lives Matter, Filament Publishing, Introverted Leaders, Introverted Women, Leadership, London, Me too Generation, Quietly confident, Self-Help, Single Mothers, Women's Networks
Labels: 1970's, Alphabet, Annapolis Valley, Humour, Jokes, Nato A-Z, Nova Scotia, Rural
Labels: Bees, Book Reviews, Bradt, Greek Gods, Il Duce, Jennifer Barclay, Jewish History, Natural World, Nisyros, Poseidon, Rhodes, Tilos, Travel Writing, Wild Abandon, World War Two
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Bit of bovver |
Labels: Book Reviews, East End, Gothic, Hackney, Hammer Films, Horror, Lena Lovich, London, Mosh Pits, Novels, Poetry, Punk, Rasta, Revenge, Schlock, Skin Heads, Stoke Newington, Talent, Werewolves of London
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Cult novel reissued |
Labels: Beatnic, Book Reviews, Civil Servants, East End, Jack Kerouac, Literary Reading, London, London Scene, Poetry, Rock n Roll, Soho, Spoken word, Talent, Thatcher, West End, Withnail and I