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The City is of Night; perchance of Death…

James “B.V.” Thomson (1834–1882) – poet, journalist, translator, anarchist, atheist – was born #OTD, 23 Nov, in Port Glasgow. Best known for his long poem THE CITY OF DREADFUL NIGHT, he influenced TS Eliot & is seen as a progenitor of Modernism

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https://psychogeographicreview.com/the-city-of-dreadful-night/

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An extract from a film by Ernest Schonfield of the poet Tom Leonard speaking extempore about writing the biography PLACES OF THE MIND (Cape, 1993), on the life & work of James “B.V.” Thomson

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYq5YZbXjnM

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