#AprilCountry , April 24th, “One More River To Cross”, Sons of the Pioneers
Sons of The Pioneers have been going a long time. I am not totally sure if the Spotify and YouTube versions here match … perhaps it is a variance in…
“The Thing I Am”, Jorge Luis Borges
From The Paris Review online: I have forgotten my name. I am not Borges (Borges died at La Verde, under fire) Nor am I Acevedo, dreaming of battle, Nor my…
“a curlew cried and in the luminous wind/ A curlew answered” – “Paudeen”, WB Yeats
World Curlew Day has been and gone, but the literature of curlews seems endless. I am reading “Curlew Moon” by Mary Colwell which has been an engrossing read so far…
“the only wisdom within our grasp during our stay in the insoluble mystery of who and where and when we are is the wisdom of humility?”
Comment sections have a bad press, and one can understand when even the most innocuous YouTube video can have all sorts of rabid anger unleashed below. Sometimes, however, comments can…
#AprilCountry – April 23rd, “The Running Kind”, Merle Haggard
We’ve already featured Waylon Jennings , and in duet form Merle Haggard, but here is Merle on his own, with one of those half-boastful, half-wistful songs that shows country music…
#AprilCountry, April 22nd, “Jackson”, Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash
I’ve made it so far without reckoning with the enormous shade of Johnny Cash. Here he is with June, on a TV duet (with somewhat cringe set-up) performing “Jackson”, the…
Curlews in The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan’s thrillers are not exactly politically correct by today’s standards, but contain many gems of prose – especially on the natural world and on the cares of power. There is…
Henry Williamson on Curlews: From “Tarka the Otter”
From Tarka the Otter Within the moor is the Forest, a region high and treeless, where sedge grasses grow on the slopes to the sky. In early summer the wild…
Séamus Sweeney 