Robin Saikia
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Author of 'Drink & Think Venice'; 'The Venice Lido'; 'Blue Guide Literary Companion London'; 'A Very Fine Cat Indeed'. https://robinsaikia.wordpress.com/
Poem, 'On Mariano Fortuny'.
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Poem: ‘On Mariano Fortuny’
Light is what he argued with,not as a quarrel but a courtship:how to persuade it to stay,to take a room by the handand teach it manners.In his palazzo the lamps hang,patient moons, pleated, reticen…
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December 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Poem, 'On Mariano Fortuny'.
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28 of my Venetian poems #venetophiles. I do hope you enjoy them! share.google/UF9BcXcYQSrN...
Robin Saikia – Venetian Poems
Venetian Light Song for a Dying Gondola Homage to Corvo A Trial of Four Seasons Ode on the Façade of Santa Maria del Giglio Lines on a Byzantine Relief in Santa Maria Assunta, Torcello Good Russian…
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December 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
28 of my Venetian poems #venetophiles. I do hope you enjoy them! share.google/UF9BcXcYQSrN...
'A Trial of Four Seasons', my last and most ambitious poem of the year, wishing everyone happy festivities, and later reunions in #Venice. ##venetophiles
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Venetian Poem: ‘A Trial of Four Seasons’
I. SPRINGLet Venice rise in a glass-green hush,Clear as the prayer of a saint rejoicing.Then the dark, valedictory winter skySummons the stones to rise and speak.Spring issues its first hesitant af…
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December 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
'A Trial of Four Seasons', my last and most ambitious poem of the year, wishing everyone happy festivities, and later reunions in #Venice. ##venetophiles
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Poem: Song for a Dying Gondola
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Poem: ‘Song for a Dying Gondola’
Now in the twilight shed of the squero,where resin dreams and sea-salt dust collect,they ease you from your stilts,old swimmer of the city’s veins,and let your spine uncoil.For years you slipped al…
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December 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Poem: Song for a Dying Gondola
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An away day near Monti Compatri in the Roman hills.
August 14, 2024 at 6:57 PM
An away day near Monti Compatri in the Roman hills.
Great chat with friend and colleague, the author #DavidHewson, in advance of the US/Canada release of Drink & Think Venice on August 27. You can hear the podcast here:
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Drink & Think Venice: David Hewson interviews Robin Saikia
David Hewson called by this morning and we had an extremely enjoyable chat about Drink & Think Venice - and about our mutual enthusiasm for this most engaging and improbable of cities. Check out David...
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August 13, 2024 at 6:25 AM
Great chat with friend and colleague, the author #DavidHewson, in advance of the US/Canada release of Drink & Think Venice on August 27. You can hear the podcast here:
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Super review of my book by David Hewson!
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Robin Saikia’s Drink & Think Venice — DAVID HEWSON
A review of Think & Drink Venice by Robin Saikia, an unusual and highly
personal take on some of the watering holes of the city, with some
fascinating insights into history and personalities over th...
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July 3, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Super review of my book by David Hewson!
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Drink & Think Venice by Robin Saikia. “The barfly’s dream guide book.”(The Oldie) “This is a glorious book, compact but packed with useful information, inside-track knowledge, glorious anecdotes, wit, history, good taste. Tom Doorley (columnist, Sunday Times Ireland)
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Robin Saikia
Robin Saikia's "Drink & Think Venice" offers a unique exploration of the city through 26 different drinks at various bars and cafes. Each chapter introduces a drink and then delves into a captivating ...
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July 3, 2024 at 10:24 AM
Drink & Think Venice by Robin Saikia. “The barfly’s dream guide book.”(The Oldie) “This is a glorious book, compact but packed with useful information, inside-track knowledge, glorious anecdotes, wit, history, good taste. Tom Doorley (columnist, Sunday Times Ireland)
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#RishiSunak Speaking as a fellow #Wykehamist and a fellow British Indian, I think you are a disgrace, both to our old school and to the inclusive traditions of Britain.
January 2, 2024 at 4:27 PM
#RishiSunak Speaking as a fellow #Wykehamist and a fellow British Indian, I think you are a disgrace, both to our old school and to the inclusive traditions of Britain.
Reading aloud (the whole thing) and discussing, with one of my pupils, The Picture of Dorian Gray. A delight. I find myself increasingly homing in on the "lifestyle" features of this book - e.g. this not at all bad drink favoured by Lord Henry Wotton 👇
November 30, 2023 at 9:19 PM
Reading aloud (the whole thing) and discussing, with one of my pupils, The Picture of Dorian Gray. A delight. I find myself increasingly homing in on the "lifestyle" features of this book - e.g. this not at all bad drink favoured by Lord Henry Wotton 👇
Venice Lido dreams (painting by #KatiaMargolis, plus Doggie)
November 30, 2023 at 8:51 PM
Venice Lido dreams (painting by #KatiaMargolis, plus Doggie)
A cat in Maine seems reasonably pleased to have received my Lido book 😀👇
November 30, 2023 at 8:42 PM
A cat in Maine seems reasonably pleased to have received my Lido book 😀👇
Ha! 👇
Two German soldiers are hunting for a downed British airman.
"We'll never find him in this wood at night." One says, quietly.
"You're right." The other one replies, loudly. "BECAUSE I HEAR HE WENT TO ETON."
"Actually gentleman, I'm a Wykehamist." A nearby bush replies, annoyed
"We'll never find him in this wood at night." One says, quietly.
"You're right." The other one replies, loudly. "BECAUSE I HEAR HE WENT TO ETON."
"Actually gentleman, I'm a Wykehamist." A nearby bush replies, annoyed
November 30, 2023 at 6:15 PM
Ha! 👇
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Anna Magnani and James Mason at the Venice Film Festival, 1956.
November 30, 2023 at 9:28 AM
Anna Magnani and James Mason at the Venice Film Festival, 1956.
'A Very Fine Cat Indeed' - a dramatic monologue in which Samuel Johnson reminisces about his cat, Hodge.
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November 30, 2023 at 4:01 PM
'A Very Fine Cat Indeed' - a dramatic monologue in which Samuel Johnson reminisces about his cat, Hodge.
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