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If at age 20 you do not prefer Keats, you have no heart. If at age 30 you do not prefer Coleridge, then you have no brains. Samuel Taylor Coleridge is our poet of the month, and Cameron Aitken show us why he deserves an eminent position at the pinnacle of British Romanticism.
To bring the pictures at my current Warsaw exhibition to a wider audience - and to introduce the pictures to serious international collectors - I have added the art to my website. Almost all of this art was made this year especially for this exhibition. View the collection here:…
Two months until my book on Yukio Mishima’s novels is published! Out in the US / UK / Japan 23rd September!
If the nature of politics changes, then art's purpose must surely follow. Reflecting on the discoveries of Elite Theory, Amory Crane (@LaughingCav1) draws our attention to the potent possibilities for the art of the future.
Some of you may have seen this before, but it's probably one of my best essays so far. Check it out.
If the nature of politics changes, then art's purpose must surely follow. Reflecting on the discoveries of Elite Theory, Amory Crane (@LaughingCav1) draws our attention to the potent possibilities for the art of the future.
D. H. Lawrence, as Anthony Burgess once said, is the patron saint of all writers who never got an Oxbridge Education. Here is Burgess on Lawrence. A fine documentary for a Sunday night. youtube.com/watch?v=WPvBzT…
Etching of a Polar bear, Herbert Thomas Dicksee (1862-1942)
Read an exclusive extract from my novel 'Die When I Say When' on @DecadentSerpent: decadentserpent.com/2025/07/20/net…
This Sunday, we are delighted to publish an extract from Luke Gilfedder's (@lukesgilfedder) thrilling tale of murder and man-hunt, "Die When I Say When":