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TALES FROM THE UNIVERSE No 12 - This week's newsletter: Rick Astley; how many laws are there?; 'much to your chagrin'; exclusive poem - 'main drag of magalluf'; PS: Create One Thing Immortal...

TALES FROM THE UNIVERSE No 12 - This week's newsletter: Rick Astley; how many laws are there?; 'much to your chagrin'; exclusive poem - 'main drag of magalluf'; PS: Create One Thing Immortal...

An arcadia of imagination

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May 21, 2023
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TALES FROM THE UNIVERSE No 12 - This week's newsletter: Rick Astley; how many laws are there?; 'much to your chagrin'; exclusive poem - 'main drag of magalluf'; PS: Create One Thing Immortal...
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Pic: Paradisio Publishing

Welcome (and find here nearly 7,000 stories by me, dating back to 2002, for The Guardian and Observer)

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1. Part 13 of BECAUSE THEY CAN PLAY F’CKING GOOD FOOTBALL is coming:

Cover: Paradisio Publishing

On Wednesday the next installment of my new Erik ten Hag book is published - as usual a sample of this is readable for free, the rest for subscribers at £4.99 a-month, the story coming in weekly chapters.

In part 13…

‘Christian Eriksen doth does spake’

‘Erik takes a bike ride’

PLUS: copious other intrigue in the tale of Erik ten Hag’s first term as Manchester United manager.


2. Tune

When the planets visit…

Pic: Paradisio Publishing

listen to this…

3. It is all art, baby

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‘a mother...’


4. Poem: the main drag of magalluf

Pic: Paradisio Publishing

the main drag of magulluf

the main drag of magalluf

in spectral light
i roved off the main drag
of magalluf, majorca,
saw a dude in the dirt
asleep
empties scattered around
one green gleaming bottle 
of San Palma half-filled
his pockets turned out
wallet ripped up
by his side
and i kept on roving
down to the beach
the sea
spectral shine
a burnish on the revellers

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