Rhapsodies by Petrus Borel, trans. by John Gallas and Kurt Ganz War Music Many of her haunting narratives

Many of her haunting narratives draw us into darkness

‘All this and his eye for telling details make James Russell a true story teller and a true poet’

puts one in mind of the darker side of Stevie Smith who said that poetry "is a strong explosion in the sky"

deep intellect

Rhapsodies by Petrus Borel, trans. by John Gallas and Kurt Ganz War Music Many of her haunting narrativesBorel was the sun,' said Theophile Gautier, 'who could resist him?' Indeed, who? A lycanthrope, necrophile, absurd revolutionary, Paris dandy with a scented beard, flamboyant sufferer: a man with no grave and no memorial. His once celebrated red mouth opened briefly 'like an exotic flower' to complain of injustice and bourgeois vulgarity; of his frustration in love and reputation; of poverty and blighted fate. Then he withered in the minor officialdom