The Birth of Venus and Other Beauties
In music, as in every art-form, there has arisen in recent times the illusion that knowledge is not necessary, that the old forms of discipline are merely obstacles to the true creative process, and that real originality means doing your own thing, free from traditional constrai…
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In the barmkin hushed unsleeping Atop the battlements, amid the flames Sentries prowl, fog enshrouded: We fear the foe without a name The foe we fear b…
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A SHORT FILM
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or, “CONTEMPT-EDY” NOT COMEDY
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(Approx. 22°20'N 120°53'E. Photo credit: The Author) The effect of gravity upon the teethOne underestimates for an overbite:The subtle invisibility of …
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Originally published in New English Review
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A poem in trimeter, originally published in the New English Review
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Richard Kuslan is an admirer of Donne, Sheridan, Byron, LeFanu, Trollope, Orwell, Sacheverell Sitwell, Christopher Logue and Jean Sprackland, among (ma…
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