Wild Court

An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London

Jane Blanchard

  • ‘A Bar at the Folies-Bergère’: a poem by Jane Blanchard

    ‘A Bar at the Folies-Bergère’: a poem by Jane Blanchard

    ‘A Bar at the Folies-Bergère’ by Édouard Manet, 1882 She has no hat upon her head, no smileupon her face as she leans slightly forward,hands pressed against the slab set up in stylefor orders either proper or untoward. A length of ribbon wrapped around her throatsuspends the gaudy bauble she holds dear,its giver having made…