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ROBIN SAIKIA: Books
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POEMS ABOUT GOD and others. POVEGLIA - Venice's haunted island. A social and literary history of Venice's glamorous beach resort from ancient times to the present day. I have enjoyed it hugely - and it has taught me lots that I didn't know (John Julius Norwich); Warmth, charm and eccentric scholarship (The Spectator); Smashing. . .so well brought off I expected sand to sift from its pages while I was reading (Guardian); This book will broaden your horizons (Fictional Cities). A reprint of the 1937 Nazi c...
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ROBIN SAIKIA: POEMS ABOUT GOD and others
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POEMS ABOUT GOD and others. POVEGLIA - Venice's haunted island. POEMS ABOUT GOD and others. A poetess and her baby brother. Await the arrival of their sibling. After the recently discovered poem by Sappho]. Chatter, chatter, chatter! Grow up, Larichos! And darling, yes,. The ship is full of toys! Only God knows when, though. Do me a favour and. Stop the endless grizzling. Free me for a second, just one second. For a prayer,. And I'll pray hard. The ship is sound and that Charaxos. That God will bless.
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ROBIN SAIKIA: Robin Saikia's 10 Things to Do on the Venice Lido
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POEMS ABOUT GOD and others. POVEGLIA - Venice's haunted island. Tuesday, 31 May 2011. Robin Saikia's 10 Things to Do on the Venice Lido. My latest book,. Contains a list of places that are either mentioned in the book or that I've enjoyed and can personally recommend. The eleventh thing to do would be to. Your Lido hotel may have in-house bicycles for hire. Failing that, there are several bikes-for-hire shops near the vaporetto station and on the Gran Viale S M Elisabetta. A good site for cyclist...For a...
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ROBIN SAIKIA: William Ellis - The Movie
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POEMS ABOUT GOD and others. POVEGLIA - Venice's haunted island. Thursday, 28 April 2011. William Ellis - The Movie. Who's been a naughty boy, then? We'd better confiscate your. Please humour me for a minute or so. Later you'll see why. Stand in front of your mirror, imagine you're a policeman and say, in the most menacing tone you can manage, "I'll confiscate your Travel Pass." Give it some real. Hard copper/villain darkness and depth. Think John Thaw in. Or Arnold Schwarzenneger in. 28/4/2011): "It is c...
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ROBIN SAIKIA: Letter from Venice: Tchaikovsky not Gay shock
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POEMS ABOUT GOD and others. POVEGLIA - Venice's haunted island. Wednesday, 14 May 2014. Letter from Venice: Tchaikovsky not Gay shock. St Petersburg's best known bear. Deliberates with his Minister for Culture. In their tasteful, pastel-themed, office. Why all the fuss? Or would the university's Russian project remain its own master? Only time will tell. Thank God for lovely old England, where the lunatic fringe is kept on the outer borders of politics where it belongs. In comparatively 'raw', 'new' ...
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ROBIN SAIKIA: Letter from Venice: Mikhail Roginsky
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POEMS ABOUT GOD and others. POVEGLIA - Venice's haunted island. Saturday, 21 June 2014. Letter from Venice: Mikhail Roginsky. Detail from Pink Interior I by Mikhail Roginsky. Mikhail Roginsky, Ca' Foscari Esposizoni, Mostra Internazionale di Architettura. Very few. Bacon, Velasquez, Piero della Francesca, Tintoretto perhaps. Comparisons are helpful only in that they may serve to place Roginsky in the first rank. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Warmth, charm and eccentric scholarship. The Red Book rev...
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ROBIN SAIKIA: Contro Venezia Passatista: Marinetti revisited in a fresh translation
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POEMS ABOUT GOD and others. POVEGLIA - Venice's haunted island. Sunday, 29 May 2011. Contro Venezia Passatista: Marinetti revisited in a fresh translation. Marinetti in 1912: cars, not gondolas. The artist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944) was the founder of the Italian Futurist movement. He and his followers embraced technological progress and were scornful of traditionalists, urging the. Would be at the sagging curves. Of the miserable old buildings! And yes, may it come! The reign of Divine Electr...
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ROBIN SAIKIA: Withnail and I - in Venice at the Excelsior
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POEMS ABOUT GOD and others. POVEGLIA - Venice's haunted island. Sunday, 7 July 2013. Withnail and I - in Venice at the Excelsior. Robin Saikia with Richard E Grant at the Grand Hotel Excelsior, Venice Lido. On the one hand you have the exquisite jewel-case of the Gothic city, but only fifteen minutes away you find this unbuttoned paradise of plutocratic hedonism. Venice, July 2013. Filming the Venice episode of Richard E Grant's Hotel Secrets. 2 May 2014 at 09:16. Do hope youre well. Love from Sarah X.
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ROBIN SAIKIA: The Photographer
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POEMS ABOUT GOD and others. POVEGLIA - Venice's haunted island. Tuesday, 16 December 2014. The Photographer © Robin Saikia 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I have enjoyed it hugely - and it has taught me lots that I didn't know. Warmth, charm and eccentric scholarship. Smashing. . .so well brought off I expected sand to sift from its pages while I was reading. This book will broaden your horizons. The Venice Lido (Blue Guides) reviewed in Il Ridotto. On Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon. London in ...
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ROBIN SAIKIA: Biography
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POEMS ABOUT GOD and others. POVEGLIA - Venice's haunted island. Robin Saikia is a British travel writer and historian based in London and Venice. He was educated at Winchester College and Merton College, Oxford and grew up in Britain, Zambia, India and Italy. He is a good cook, an adventurous traveller and an accomplished classical pianist. He is married to the actress Vicki Carpenter. And has three sons by a previous marriage, Alexander, Sebastian. Robin is the author of. Foxley Books, 2008); The Red Bo...
