Category Archives: General

The Descent of Dr. Seuss

Posted on March 21, 2004 by Marco Graziosi

No Place for Absurdity By Eric Gibson J.K. Rowling famously negotiated ironclad agreements with Warner Bros. to make sure that her Harry Potter books made it to the screen in the right way. (What you saw was what you read.) … Continue reading →

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Start with rhymes

Posted on March 7, 2004 by Marco Graziosi

Start with rhymes By DAphne LeeAside from being easy on the ear, rhyming stories are also easy on the tongue although anyone who has grappled with Dr Seuss or Edward Lear’s deliciously madcap nonsense may beg to differ. My husband … Continue reading →

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Charles Causley

Posted on November 6, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Charles Causley Charles Causley, who died on Tuesday aged 86, was among the most important British poets of his generation.Causley came to Westminster Abbey – once – for a ceremony, with appropriate music and readings, to unveil a stone to … Continue reading →

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The Medieval Bestiary

Posted on November 5, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

The Medieval Bestiary Here begins the book of the nature of beasts.Of lions and panthers and tigers,wolves and foxes, dogs and apes.~ Aberdeen Bestiary I seldom recommend whole sites in this page, but this one deserves a careful exploration. You … Continue reading →

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Inbal Pinto

Posted on November 3, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Inbal Pinto Inbal Pinto’s latest show, Boobies, creates a world in which characters from Edward Lear and Mervyn Peake might happily meet. On a beach sown with blue seagrass, a dropsy-bellied patriarch wages war against a sinister emerald-bearded merman. A … Continue reading →

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Rose-Red City Carved From the Rock

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Rose-Red City Carved From the Rock In 1812 a Swiss-born, Cambridge-educated linguist named Johann Ludwig Burckhardt passed through the city en route from Syria to Egypt. He spent an uneasy three days there, unwelcomed as an outsider by the inhabitants, … Continue reading →

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Spike's sad sharp edge

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Spike’s sad sharp edgeThose who grew up on The Goon Show will see him as later generations saw Monty Python – as the one who made sense by failing to do so, the great anarch who gave form to a … Continue reading →

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Nailing Spike

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Nailing Spike [Milligan] The combination of Spike, Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe and Michael Bentine, with help from deep-dish subversives emerging from their cocoons in the BBC, created an explosion of verbal anarchy that nevertheless flowed from a tradition, combining music … Continue reading →

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Celebrity voices on charity CD

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Celebrity voices on charity CD Les Barker, 59, who lives in Bwlchgwyn near Wrexham, has released a poetry CD entitled Guide Cats for the Blind, to raise funds for the British Computer Association of the Blind. His style is in … Continue reading →

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Hamiltons sell up

Posted on October 17, 2003 by Marco Graziosi

Hamiltons sell up Not much about Lear, but I’m trying to resume updating this blog after a long period and anything will do.ic Liverpool | 8 September 2003

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