C.H. Sisson for the poetry, Dorothy L. Sayers for the notes & apparatus
Yes please!
this is the start of a genuine letter from W.H. Auden
biron has left the chat
Frikadelle, Swedish mustard, gherkins, pickled red cabbage, Keen's cheddar and tomato slice on Irish potato bread, untoasted
Farewell and adieu, to you fair Spanish lattes
Farewell and adieu, to you lattes of Spain
No idea if this is widespread but my daughter's year 4 class is absolutely obsessed with D.B. Cooper - they are all big fans (and all certain he got away). Not sure where they have picked this up from
keen on this picture of Emily's - a beautiful lady leads a unicorn on a silver chain to two knights, who (unbeknownst to her) are secretly evil birds in disguise with painted-on mouths. above, Zeus intervenes crossly, to stop a thundercloud from striking a tree with lightning
Emily's picture of the skeleton and its baby (a bird) in the supermarket, trying to decide between different jams
took Emily to the mummer's play. what a joy
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happy first advent
I was completely convinced by this when I first read it, and now I can't read it any other way, even though I'm starting to think it's a bit unlikely. But surely, surely the sestina is meant to be bad??
the best halloween poem of them all - william dunbar's "harry, harry, hobbillschowe" (there are many many more stanzas of this)
dominos. the home of low value pizza
The carefully trodden language of grief - Goose to Donkey from Les Murray ‘Translations from the Natural World’.
yes - he was in 2 Clarence Terrace from 1952 onwards, and Autumn Sequel is '53
What on earth was Laszlo Krasznahorkai doing in Acton Morrisons??
there's one on the shelf in the bookshop I'm pretty sure - give us a shout tomorrow afternoon if nobody has answered before then?
this will almost certainly be quicker than taking the central line
REQUEST FOR BLUESKY HELP
i have put a couple of courgettes in the fridge and am very nervous that, when i get off work at half 6, i am going to forget to transfer them into my rucksack.
you'd think that would be the first thing they'd get the hang of
baby eel at the Thames Tidefest
5.15 - 7pm is a baffling time to hold a pub quiz
very pleased that David Jones' *In Parenthesis* includes a bit part for a carpenter called Nat West
(& if you are after association copies, Foster Books have various poetry collections inscribed to him)
do you have his autobiography, by any chance? I've been trying to work out the exact house where he lived in Chiswick - I think i walk past it on my way into work.
Loki, pursued by the frost giantess Thiazi disguised as an eagle (and carrying the goddess Idun disguised as a walnut), approaches Asgard (mislabelled Midgard in picture) where the gods are building a bonfire
Emily's illustration of Marie de France's lai of Guigemar - Guigemar, hunting in the forest, finds a talking deer, completely white with golden antlers, and shoots an arrow which deflects from the deer's hoof to lodge itself in Guigemar's thigh
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