The egg sails vertiginously along the floor like a scrambled cat flapIt’s a flan, too embarrassed to admit it’s only half-madeIt’s an egg, but it’s a special eggImbued with the powers of the theoretical, it’s the egg you want.President Egg. An egg, not just for now, but for sometime later as well.An egg, that beneath…
Words: Merlin Betts. Img: Iron Tail portrait, sitting for Gertrude Käsebier (public domain). This all started about a year ago with me trying to understand why Hastings Museum have a – pretty damn splendid – Native American headdress, and whether they should hold onto it or not. That story was supposed to be a quick…
Oli Spleen At the end of June, as he transitioned from Mayor of Greater Manchester back into Westminster where he would be appointed Prime Minister of the UK, Andy Burnham stood at the People’s History Museum in Manchester by a permanent installation of Hastings poet Salena Godden’s “Pessimism is For Lightweights”. As the BBC cameras…