LINKS

My partner Fe Robards' web page - check it out for some images which will eventually be wedded to poems.

Ever heard of menippean satire? There are some famous examples that are worth checking out, like Petronius' Satyricon. Watch this site - I've written a lot about menippean satire. and it's about time it became the no 1 priority of all global intellectual efforts.

Hey, I got a mention in someone's blog.

Here's some information on my third cousin six-times removed (no kidding),the American ninetenenth century sonneteer, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman. His first cousin, who funnily enough is also my third cousin six times removed, was Henry Theodore Tuckerman, who was matey with James Russell Lowell, the great-grand uncle of the poet Robert Lowell. Henry Theodore's claim to fame is that he knocked back Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" for publication in 1842. What a dim-wit!

While we're on about distant relatives, here's a story from the Sydney Gazette of 1808 about my great-great-great-great-grandfather, Thomas Prentice.

And here's a link to my second cousin, Lord Blackett - some boffin who worked with cloud chanbers (I wish).