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Posted on August 19, 2019August 19, 2019

The Stepping Stones to Eternity — from Flowering Poverello

From the Flowering Poverello blog, a poetry sequence which, for some reason, especially resonated. I will let it speak for itself, except the resonance began with the opening lines “I…

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Posted on August 11, 2019

“He had an irritating habit of insulting waiters in restaurants, and often sat at the table for 45 minutes before deigning to consult the menu. ” – the Daily Telegraph obituary of Charles Higham

I am partial to the odd rogue (fully aware that, as the narrator of “The Spy Who Loved Me” would say,  it reads better than it lives) and partial to the  obituary page…

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Posted on June 14, 2019June 14, 2019

The best, definitive version of “You’re Gonna Hear From Me” – from Scott Walker (beating off Sinatra, Streisand and even Shirley Bassey)

“You’re Gonna Hear From Me” is a song by the late André Previn  written with his then wife Dory,  from the movie Inside Daisy Clover .  Natalie Wood’s original vocals were…

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Posted on May 15, 2019May 15, 2019

“Machinery” by Robert Wrigley

On what would have been my father’s 87th Birthday this poem by Robert Wrigley seems fitting. It captures something of the tension between the worlds of literary endeavour and the…

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Posted on May 5, 2019

“Circle”, a poem by Holly Day

via Rabid Oak, Issue 12,  a poem about recurrence in history. And crows: History gathers up in a swirl of images seemingly unconnected as individual incidents clumping together to form a…

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Posted on April 28, 2019

Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art”, the poetry of loss, and bereavement

The poetry magazine Magma has a call for submissions for a special issue on Loss. The deadline is April 30th – so you better get writing if you want to enter…

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Posted on April 15, 2019

Sacred Music from Notre Dame Cathedral, Tonus Peregrinus

A few weeks ago I posted tracks from this album as part of the ChoralMarch blog series. It is hard to believe the cover of this album – with Notre…

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Posted on April 15, 2019April 15, 2019

A short film about Curlews: “Keeper of the Call”

World Curlew Day is next Sunday, April 21st. The decline of the curlew, whose call truly merits that overused word “iconic”, is one of the most shocking natural history stories…

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