The Surrender of Barcelona (1934-1937) (20/12/20) – Improv In Em I was working on a painting when the war, the war broke out In it I set my novel and I called it “The Revenge for Love“ But the book was not connected to the artwork that I'd made If I could travel to the 1500s this is what I'd see Not “The Surrender of Barcelona” but “The Surrender of Breda” Not “The Surrender of Barcelona" but “The Surrender of Breda” And I founded the Vorticist Movement; I edited their "Blast" magazine And I wrote many novels and essays until the year of fifty seven I was born in Nova Scotia upon my father's yacht He was a rich, rich American, while my mother hailed from England They split in '93 and my mother returned to England She brought her son back with her and there I studied art Before the war I travelled Europe before settling down in Paris In '08 I returned to London and there I wrote and painted I fell out with the Bloomsbury Set and I entered into Cubism At “The Cave of the Golden Calf”, the Avant Garde and the night club And that was back in Heddon Street before the rise of Bowie's “Stardust” And I moved into Abstraction while influenced by Nietzsche Fell out with the Omega Workshops about work for the Ideal Homes Became the “Enemy of the Stars”, a precursor to Samuel Beckett The World War broke the movement and took me to the front Calling down the batteries and their fiery mass destruction Was war artist for the Brits, war artist for the Canucks From this came “A Battery Shelled” and from this too came “Guns” Then I was at “The Penguin Club” in nineteen seventeen And my first book “Tarr” was published in nineteen and eighteen “Blasting, Bombardiering” took me up to 26. And then “Tyros and Writing” took me up to 29 My career was as a painter, satirising the new Epoch Plastic art in our time, then became a theme In the 30's I was writing, separated from the Garde Was loathe to be a vehicle for pernicious idealogues “The Art of Being Ruled” and “Time and Western Man” Critiquing Joyce and Pound and moving into fiction And coined “The Apes of God”, attacking then the Sitwells And then “The Revenge for Love” and the Spanish Civil War “The Surrender of Barcelona”, thirty four to thirty seven “The Surrender of Barcelona”, thirty four to thirty seven “The Surrender of Barcelona”, thirty four to thirty seven “The Surrender of Barcelona”, thirty four to thirty seven