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Last year I posted a YouTube video of the magnificent setting of the Salve Regina (Hail Holy Queen) the concludes Poulenc’s opera Dialogues des Carmelites , with the sound of the…
I came across this “digital treasure hunt” created by Lukas Stanley – apparently the following riddle contains all one needs to discover the (virtual) location of a $1000 prize. Here…
From the journal Prometheus Dreaming , I liked this poem by Matt Alberswerth which has strong echoes of Ted Hughes: Crossing the Jordan Did the fish hear me when…
I greatly enjoyed M Stone’s found poem “My Life By Water”, constructed using… well, you can follow the link to find out – and does it matter? It stands on…
There’s an interesting and somewhat maddening story by David Owen in the current New Yorker on noise and health (both human and animal). Interesting because, well this is something I…
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…
A whole series of posts of settings of “Stabat Mater” could be made…Pergolesi, Haydn, Dvorâk, Rossini, Poulenc, Arvo Pärt. Here, from his late Four Sacred Pieces, is Verdi’s – which,…
Séamus Sweeney 