Poetry
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May 30, 2022:
Linkblog 🔗: The love song of TS Eliot: intense letters reveal the passion behind the pen
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Apr 28, 2022:
Finished reading: One Language by Anastasia Taylor-Lind 📚
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Apr 17, 2022:
TS Eliot’s The Waste Land issues weather warning for our times 🔗
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Apr 17, 2022:
Plague poems, defiant wit and penis puns: why John Donne is a poet for our times 🔗
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Feb 28, 2022:
Beat Poet Elise Cowen’s Time-Traveling Love Letters to Emily Dickinson 🔗
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Feb 12, 2022:
The Paris Review - Cavafy’s Bed 🔗
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Dec 24, 2021:
Finished reading: Pandemonium by Armando Iannucci 📚
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Oct 31, 2021:
John Keats was born #OnThisDay, 31st October 1795, in Moorgate, London, where his father worked in a …
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Oct 31, 2021:
The Gravestone of John Keats: Romancing the Stone 🔗
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Sep 27, 2021:
The Concert by Edna St Vincent Millay 🔗
Poem of the week in The Guardian
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Aug 27, 2021:
Currently reading: Sissy by Ben Borek 📚
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Distracted from distraction by distraction Aug 9, 2021
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Jul 21, 2021:
Clothes just undone—not that there were many, for an exquisite July was blazing.
— Cavafy Bot …
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Apr 15, 2021:
Should Feminists Read Baudelaire? BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature 🔗
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Mar 30, 2021:
Interesting and informative podcast series from the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and …
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Feb 23, 2021:
The Great British Art Tour: why is Keats at Guy’s hospital? 🔗 The Romantic poet John Keats …
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Feb 23, 2021:
John Keats: five poets on his best poems, 200 years since his death 🔗 Ode to a Nightingale (1819) My …
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Nov 30, 2020:
Enclosing their lives Old castle walls reinforce The rule of the few
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 29, 2020:
I’m gazing downwards
A tiny pedestrian
Fights against the flow
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 28, 2020:
Behind a dark mask
Punchinello imagines
Time of Carnival
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Nov 27, 2020:
What can be certain?
No dilemma for Descartes -
I am, I exist
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 26, 2020:
Adjust the colour Wait for something to happen
But nothing was changed
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 25, 2020:
A call through the mist
Angry noisy chattering Tiding of magpies
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 24, 2020:
Ancient monument
Provision of memory
On featureless plains
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 23, 2020:
Books quickly devoured
But to capture the meaning
Is more of an art
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 22, 2020:
Seeking a refuge
Lands of milk and honey lie
Beyond the border
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 21, 2020:
A winter journey
Departing warmth and shelter
Towards the unknown
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 20, 2020:
Old photographs fade
Our history in albums
Dusty from neglect
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 19, 2020:
Possible worlds spin
Planets around their orbits
Peopled by strangers
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 18, 2020:
Covering the tree -
Dependence on an other - Lichen spreads slowly
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 17, 2020:
My train of thought lost
Interruptions disturb me Or are they welcome?
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 16, 2020:
Pale marble headstone
Memory of young poet -
A broken Greek lyre
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 15, 2020:
Rumbling thunder sounds
Far away lightning flashes Rain in the valleys
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 14, 2020:
Trees disturbed by breeze
Shadows beyond the window
Spooky gloominess
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 13, 2020:
Difficult to guess
The story of an image
Caught in an instant
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 12, 2020:
Hard and unyielding
All things will slowly wear down
Given enough time
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 11, 2020:
Mary on the Green
I’d say the bright statue speaks
In true memory
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 10, 2020:
Elderly pathways
Straight lines through an empty town Lost destinations
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 9, 2020:
Force me to select
One highlight of the autumn -
Abundance of squash
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 8, 2020:
Trying to bind us
Ivy creeps slowly over
The cracks in our walls
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 7, 2020:
To inflate one’s worth
Beyond the reality -
Mistake of many
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 6, 2020:
Beginning of day
Puzzling over breakfast tea
Wondering what next?
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 5, 2020:
Green changed to amber
Pine needles are covering Red tiles on the stoop
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 4, 2020:
Near neighbours entwine
Branches and tendrils twisted
Broken in the fall
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 3, 2020:
A fake persona
Wane into obscurity
Astonish me now
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 2, 2020:
Concentrate on sleep Losing thoughts and ideas Mislaid in the mist
✏️ #mbnov
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Nov 1, 2020:
An autumn morning
Dreary days of wind and rain
Sweeping sodden leaves
✏️ #mbnov
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Oct 31, 2020:
John Keats was born #OnThisDay, 31st October 1795. And on 31st October 1820 the 25 year old poet …
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Oct 8, 2020:
Currently reading: The Fire of Joy by Clive James 📚
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Oct 6, 2020:
From standup to stanzas: Frank Skinner’s terrific guide to poetry 🔗
Now embarking on its …
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Oct 1, 2020:
France divided over calls for Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine to be reburied in Panthéon 🔗 The …
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Sep 28, 2020:
Clive James: ‘The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life’ 🔗 …
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Sep 27, 2020:
‘He returned to what he really was’: Clive James’s daughter on his poetic farewell …
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Aug 4, 2020:
The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born #OnThisDay, 4th August 1792.
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Jul 8, 2020:
The Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley died #OnThisDay, 8th July 1822, at the age of 29, when his …
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Apr 14, 2020:
Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate review – fleet-footed and inspiriting 🔗 — Excerpt: In 1798, …
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Apr 7, 2020:
William Wordsworth was born on 7th April 1770. #OnThisDay 250 years ago.
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Mar 11, 2020:
Poet’s corners: a car-free tour of inspiring Wordsworth sites 🔗 — Excerpt: William Wordsworth was …
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Feb 4, 2020:
Walking in London - Finding poetry, politics and more - a Flickr album 📷 🔗
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Jan 30, 2020:
Keats Bar at the Globe. Drinking a London Pride by Fuller’s Brewery. Check in 🗺
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Jan 30, 2020:
Keats House, Hampstead
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Jan 30, 2020:
Keats House. Check in 🗺
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Jan 29, 2020:
Shelley in London: Poland Street 🔗 — Excerpt: Soho is my favourite part of London. I love walking …
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Dec 11, 2019:
Fascism: I sometimes fear… — link to a poem by Michael Rosen 🔗
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Nov 28, 2019:
William Blake, poet and printmaker, was born #OnThisDay 1757 BBC In Our Time
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Nov 21, 2019:
Simon Armitage: ‘Nature has come back to the centre of poetry’ — link 🔗
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Nov 14, 2019:
Baudelaire’s unknown extra verse to erotic poem revealed — link 🔗 📚
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Nov 6, 2019:
Forward Arts Foundation in conversation with Fiona Benson — link 🔗
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Nov 6, 2019:
Currently reading: Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson 📚
Purchased after reading this review in The …
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Nov 1, 2019:
Currently reading: Baudelaire by Claude Pichois and Jean Ziegler 📚
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Aug 4, 2019:
Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on this day in 1792 - BBC In Our Time - The Later …
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16-bit Intel 8088 chip Oct 4, 2018
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Aug 30, 2018:
Currently reading: Percy Bysshe Shelley – Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen 📚
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Aug 4, 2018:
The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born On This Day in 1792 - The Later Romantics
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Jul 25, 2018:
Currently reading: Poetry Notebook: 2006–2014 by Clive James 📚
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Apr 29, 2018:
Porthcawl won with the last kick of the game 🏉
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Apr 13, 2018:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s remains rediscovered in wine cellar 📚
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Spring by Edna St. Vincent Millay Apr 1, 2018
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Feb 26, 2018:
Edna St Vincent Millay is one of my favourite poets - just noticed and appreciated this article, …
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Jan 4, 2018:
Grave of John Keats in the Non-Catholic Cemetery, Rome
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Jan 3, 2018:
Keats-Shelley House
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Jan 3, 2018:
Checked in at Fondazione Keats-Shelley Memorial
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Sep 15, 2017:
🔖Bookmark ― Mary Shelley review – sturdy literary biopic fails to resurrect spirit of author ― but I …
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Aug 4, 2017:
The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born #OnThisDay in 1792 - The Later Romantics
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May 2, 2017:
How sweet it is to sit and read the tales
Of mightiest poets and to hear the while
Sweet music, …
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Apr 21, 2017:
Patrick Jones #poetry at Tramshed Cardiff @TramshedCF @heretic101 #Hipstamatic …
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Mar 11, 2017:
RT @BBCInOurTime: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, conceived in a long summer storm in 1816, was …
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Feb 15, 2017:
Edna St.Vincent Millay #poetry https://t.co/q8JHFlTJQJ
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Jan 22, 2017:
RT @BBCInOurTime: Lord Byron, poet, was born #OnThisDay 1788 https://t.co/Vophborhnx
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Jul 8, 2016:
RT @britishlibrary: Percy Bysshe Shelley died #otd in 1822. Explore how he came to write his poem …
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Nov 11, 2015:
QI: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s lost poem acquired by Oxford University https://t.co/MTIlqKeUYh
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Jul 15, 2013:
Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley’s poem unmasked http://t.co/5bSHTIwqOM #adn
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Apr 19, 2012:
finished Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay …
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Feb 6, 2010:
My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: Shearwater (21), Chumbawamba (13) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (4) …