Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen?
Do you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the birds cry…
#Inktober 2017 – the art of Mark Chilcott
All caught up. 22, trail. @inktober #inktober #inktober2017 #art pic.twitter.com/1Jv2oTkBGk — Mark Chilcott (@mrmarkchilcott) October 22, 2017 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js One of the joys of Inktober , as I was just posting,…
#Inktober 2017 – The Art of Susan Alman
20. Deep#inktober #inktober2017 #humpbackwhale pic.twitter.com/uPDFYolrG3 — Susan Alman (@Dolphiana) October 20, 2017 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js “One of the joys of Inktober was discovering illustrators of unique, strongly personal vision. One such is…
The Empathy of St. Francis
Originally posted on DANIEL DeFOREST LONDON:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP7sbsX8eYg There was a discussion in a First Grade religion class focused on St. Francis of Assisi. After school, a First Grader came home…
Annals of not-very-deceptive front business names: “Republican Outfitters”
“Republican Outfitters” was a draper’s on Talbot Street, founded by Clare-born Peadar Clancy From the Wikipedia article on Clancy: After his release, Peadar Clancy started a drapery business of his…
“Nature and culture have been replaced by landscape and literature”: Mark Cocker on the “New Nature Writing”, New Statesman, June 2015
I have previously cited this essay by Mark Cocker on the “New Nature Writing” as exemplified by Robert Macfarlane and Helen McDonald. Have been re-reading it and find, as often…
“I have only once encountered pure evil in a person”: Auden on Yeats
Auden’s “In Memory of W B Yeats” is a great tribute poem, especially the closing lines: Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice…
“The World Is Everything That Is The Case” – a sentence analysed by Jeff Dolven
From The Paris Review: In our new eight-part series, Life Sentence, the literary critic Jeff Dolven will take apart and put back together one beloved or bedeviling sentence every week.…
Séamus Sweeney 