Tag: poetry

• Haphazard by Starlight – Poems for Advent

  The Adoration of the Magi, by Andrea Mantegnadd – celebrate Christmas by reading TS Eliot’s ‘Journey of the Being a bit of a magpie, I look at what people write about books, then steal authors and titles for my own use. Sometimes I require instant gratification, which is where the Kindle comes into its own. Or, if…

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  December 23, 2014

  Advent, Christmas, Haphazard by Starlight. Janet Morley, poem a day, poetry, winter

• Woods, Sea and Stars…

  Woods etc. has a rather plain cover, so instead,here is a picture in Seawood, at Bardsea, Cumbria. I love Alice Oswald’s ‘Dart’, and ‘A Sleepwalk On The Severn’, which are both long poems, but hadn’t read any of her shorter work, so I was pleased when I spotted her collection Woods etc. in the library,…

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  August 20, 2012

  http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, poetry, Woods etc

• Lonely Londoners

  On a grim winter evening, when it had a kind of unrealness about London, with a fog sleeping restlessly over the city and the lights showing in the blur as if it is not London at all, but some strange place on another planet, Moses Aloetta hop on a number 46 bus at the corner…

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  June 12, 2012

  black writing, Caribbean, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, immigration, Lonely Londoners, poetry

• Happy Birthday To Me – and Browning!

  Robert Browning as a young man. Today is my birthday, an anniversary I share with poet Robert Browning, who is 200 today, but seems to have been forgotten in all the brouhaha surrounding Charles Dickens (by the way, Edward Lear, famed for his limericks and nonsense poems, is also 200 in another few days –…

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  May 7, 2012

  Birthday, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poetry, rats, Robert Browning

• Journey of the Magi

  I seem to be all behind hand with the Advent Bookfest. having missed day yesterday, but I have a poem for you today – TS Eliot’s Journey of the Magi, and if you go to http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=7070 you can hear him reciting it on an old and rather crackly radio recording. I love the way Eliot makes the…

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  December 18, 2011

  Christmas, poetry