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Like abstract painting... abstract poetry extended the range over which incompetence would fail to declare itself.

- Clive James, Poetry Notebook, 2006-2014 (in Literary Review December 2014/January 2015)

The word 'plash'

really pisses me off.

It's just 'splash', isn't it, with a silent S tacked on, to make it seem more onomatopoetical.

Auden, Heaney, Foulds... this is your gypsy's warning.

Banking bullshit

barclaycard's
0% for
22 months
(2.9% fee applies)*

* and even that's barely true