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Yes, Words Matter
BBC has a Poetry Season which means I am watching far more TV than I usually do. So far Gryff Rhys Jones has explored why poetry matters, the Orkney poet George Mackay Brown has had his own programme, and last … Continue reading
Posted in Denmark, Language, Literature, Philosophy
Tagged geek, Literature, love, musings, poetry, politics, texts and words
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Into the Woods
Yes, I know I said stuff about knitting with grey wool. The phrases “never again”, “not in the winter months” and “I need colour!!!!!” may have passed my lips. But I’ve changed my mind. The pattern is Norwegian Woods by … Continue reading
Posted in Craft, Knitting, linkage, Personal, Photography, Print Culture, typography
Tagged Glasgow, images, Photography, poetry, snow, texts and words
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“We encounter each other in words..”
Unsurprisingly the poetry reading was one of my favourite parts of the Obama inauguration ceremony (another being Aretha Franklin’s awesome hat). You can read the entire poem by Elizabeth Alexander on the New York Times website right here. Some live … Continue reading
Poetry Animations
This is both very cool and just a bit creepy. Jim Clark, a “videographer” based in London, has animated photos or paintings of long-gone poets, paired the animations with poetry and you get things like Lord Alfred Tennyson “reading” his … Continue reading
Comfort Reading
The last Christmas present has been wrapped (Misty Garden by Jo Sharp in Rowan Damask), I have had a lovely pre-Christmas get-together with friends and I ‘just’ need to pack my bag now. Yes, that was a slightly hysterical ‘just’ … Continue reading
When I Think All Hope Has Gone — R.I.P. Adrian Mitchell
Adrian Mitchell has died. His The Oxford Hysteria of English Poetry is seriously funny: Then suddenly — WOOMF — It was the Ro-man-tic Re-viv-al And it didn’t matter how you wrote, All the public wanted was a hairy great image. … Continue reading
Either I’m Nobody, Or I’m A Nation
Oh, my president-elect crush burns strong: Barack Obama seen with poetry collection. Of course it’s not just any old poetry collection, it is Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems. A Nobel Prize laureate; a Caribbean poet straddling colonialism, post-colonialism, and the Western … Continue reading
On Beauty
When I was at university back in Denmark, I’d walk across the Amager Common from my student halls to the faculty. I’d pass by a huge rose bush with beautiful yellow roses, D.H. Lawrence’s Gloire de Dijon echoing through my … Continue reading
Self-Awareness
Nothing says GEEK quite as much as a grown woman shouting “Byron! Byron, you idiots!” at University Challenge. Whilst knitting a jumper.
Is It Only Tuesday?
You know what I abhor? The phrase “one of them”. I was told Saturday that all foreigners should leave Scotland and when the speaker learned I was foreign, he qualified his words with a “but you’re not one of them” … Continue reading
Posted in Bibliophilia, humour, linkage, Personal, Popular Culture, Scotland
Tagged books, cake, events, expat, fashion, identity, living in the uk, Personal, poetry, real life, tongue-in-cheek, west end
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