Monthly Archives: August 2017

    Your mother is dead and your past is gone. These childhood memories are just self-indulgence. No, you’re wrong there. The memory of how she took my hand that day, the feel of her stiff, starchy shirt, the ironing board … Continue reading →

John Bridger. (1947-2013) “Punk poet” considered one of the godfathers of the movement. He co-wrote songs with John Lydon and Joe Strummer among others, and published a number of books in the 1980s and 1990s, including Jesus Christ Was a … Continue reading →

Dmitri Semyonovich Maslov (1878-1937). The “Peasant Poet” (dubbed by Western critics as the “Russian John Clare”). Maslov was taken up by figures such as Vladimir Bryusov, Aleksandr Blok and others who made much of his “primitive lyrical power” and closeness … Continue reading →