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Peter Parker

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Peter Parker

@PParkerWriting

Biographer (Ackerley, Isherwood), Historian (The Old Lie, The Last Veteran, Housman Country), Journalist & Editor. And out now: Some Men In London, Vol 1

London

peterparkerwriter.com

Joined June 2013

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Peter Parker
@PParkerWriting
Mar 13
My X account was hacked twice. Now I have regained control and warn everyone not to click on any links in messages like the one below. Huge apologies for all this. Please make sure you have your 2-factor authentication turned on to avoid my fate.
Peter Parker
@PParkerWriting
Apr 2
“An actor is often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not [...] and at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerise a group of innocents.” Alec Guinness, born 2 April 1914 #alecguinness #acting
Peter Parker
@PParkerWriting
Apr 1
“Your ‘Youth’ has fallen from its shelf, And you have fallen, you yourself. They knocked a soldier on the head, I mourn the poet who fell dead. And yet I think it was by chance, By oversight you died in France.” Isaac Rosenberg, killed in action 1 April 1918 #isaacrosenberg
Peter Parker
@PParkerWriting
Mar 31
“Then, as my soul to heaven, her first seat, takes flight, And earth-born body in the earth shall dwell, So fall my sins, that all may have their right, To where they’are bred, and would press me, to hell...” John Donne, died 31 March 1631 #johndonne #poem
Peter Parker
@PParkerWriting
Mar 30
“I ran out in the morning, when the air was clean and new, And all the grass was glittering and grey with autumn dew, I ran out to the apple tree and pulled an apple down, And all the bells were ringing in the old grey town.” Frances Cornford, born 30 March 1886 #francescornford

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