Poetry and Alcohol
EDMUND WALLER
'Samuel Butler made him damnably drunke at Somerset-house, where, at the water-stayres, he fell downe, and had a cruell fall. 'Twas pitty to use such a sweet swan so inhumanely.'
Aubrey Brief Lives
'A bottle swings on a string. The matt-grey iron ship,
Which ought to have been the Future, sidles by
And with due auspices decends the slip
Into an ocean where no auspieces apply.'
Louis MacNeice, 'Alcohol'
B V THOMSON
'Thomson was naturally very loving with children, and children invariably returned his affection. Once, when he came back to his rooms in Huntley Street in the fullness of change wrought by his excesses, the children went to the doo to admit him, but closed it again and went to their father, telling them that 'Mr Thomson's wicked brother was at the door'; and for some time they could not recognise 'our Mr Thomson' in the figure of the dipsomaniac claiming his name.'
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magazine list
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- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
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- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
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- French Literary Review, The
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- Global Tapestry
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- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
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- Magma
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- Modern Poetry in Translation
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- North, The
- Oasis
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- Orbis
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- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
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- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
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- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
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- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
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- Shearsman
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- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
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- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The