Someone using the name Zorba Eisenhower emailed Broadcasting House: The England football team, as befits the new austerity, are cutting back on the number of goals scored & matches won.
On Poetry Please devoted to love poems, Roger McGough remarked, with special reference to The Sunne Rising, that ‘in Donne we can truly smell the bedroom.’
Well yes, but the problem I have with that is that mention of Donne’s bedroom always conjures up for me the one at St Pauls in which he wrote Devotions & Meditations at great speed while still convalescing after his bout of relapsing fever. The smell must have been anything but enticing (or sexy), what with all that purging & all those singed pigeons.
