Poetry
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May 30, 2022:
Linkblog ๐: 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 ๐
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Apr 17, 2022:
TS Eliotโs The Waste Land issues weather warning for our times ๐
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Apr 17, 2022:
Plague poems, defiant wit and penis puns: why John Donne is a poet for our times ๐
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Feb 28, 2022:
Beat Poet Elise Cowenโs Time-Traveling Love Letters to Emily Dickinson ๐
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Feb 12, 2022:
The Paris Review - Cavafyโs Bed ๐
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Dec 24, 2021:
Finished reading: Pandemonium by Armando Iannucci ๐
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Oct 31, 2021:
John Keats was born #OnThisDay, 31st October 1795, in Moorgate, London, where his father worked in a โฆ
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Oct 31, 2021:
The Gravestone of John Keats: Romancing the Stone ๐
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Sep 27, 2021:
The Concert by Edna St Vincent Millay ๐
Poem of the week in The Guardian
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Aug 27, 2021:
Currently reading: Sissy by Ben Borek ๐
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Distracted from distraction by distraction Aug 9, 2021
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Jul 21, 2021:
Clothes just undoneโnot that there were many, for an exquisite July was blazing.
— Cavafy Bot โฆ
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Apr 15, 2021:
Should Feminists Read Baudelaire? BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature ๐
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Mar 30, 2021:
Interesting and informative podcast series from the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and โฆ
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Feb 23, 2021:
The Great British Art Tour: why is Keats at Guy’s hospital? ๐ The Romantic poet John Keats โฆ
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Feb 23, 2021:
John Keats: five poets on his best poems, 200 years since his death ๐ Ode to a Nightingale (1819) My โฆ
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Nov 30, 2020:
Enclosing their lives Old castle walls reinforce The rule of the few
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Nov 29, 2020:
I’m gazing downwards
A tiny pedestrian
Fights against the flow
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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
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Nov 26, 2020:
Adjust the colour Wait for something to happen
But nothing was changed
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Nov 25, 2020:
A call through the mist
Angry noisy chattering Tiding of magpies
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Nov 24, 2020:
Ancient monument
Provision of memory
On featureless plains
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Nov 23, 2020:
Books quickly devoured
But to capture the meaning
Is more of an art
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Nov 22, 2020:
Seeking a refuge
Lands of milk and honey lie
Beyond the border
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Nov 21, 2020:
A winter journey
Departing warmth and shelter
Towards the unknown
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Nov 20, 2020:
Old photographs fade
Our history in albums
Dusty from neglect
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Nov 19, 2020:
Possible worlds spin
Planets around their orbits
Peopled by strangers
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Nov 18, 2020:
Covering the tree -
Dependence on an other - Lichen spreads slowly
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Nov 17, 2020:
My train of thought lost
Interruptions disturb me Or are they welcome?
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Nov 16, 2020:
Pale marble headstone
Memory of young poet -
A broken Greek lyre
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Nov 15, 2020:
Rumbling thunder sounds
Far away lightning flashes Rain in the valleys
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Nov 14, 2020:
Trees disturbed by breeze
Shadows beyond the window
Spooky gloominess
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Nov 13, 2020:
Difficult to guess
The story of an image
Caught in an instant
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Nov 12, 2020:
Hard and unyielding
All things will slowly wear down
Given enough time
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Nov 11, 2020:
Mary on the Green
Iโd say the bright statue speaks
In true memory
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Nov 10, 2020:
Elderly pathways
Straight lines through an empty town Lost destinations
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Nov 9, 2020:
Force me to select
One highlight of the autumn -
Abundance of squash
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Nov 8, 2020:
Trying to bind us
Ivy creeps slowly over
The cracks in our walls
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Nov 7, 2020:
To inflate one’s worth
Beyond the reality -
Mistake of many
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Nov 6, 2020:
Beginning of day
Puzzling over breakfast tea
Wondering what next?
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Nov 5, 2020:
Green changed to amber
Pine needles are covering Red tiles on the stoop
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Nov 4, 2020:
Near neighbours entwine
Branches and tendrils twisted
Broken in the fall
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Nov 3, 2020:
A fake persona
Wane into obscurity
Astonish me now
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Nov 2, 2020:
Concentrate on sleep Losing thoughts and ideas Mislaid in the mist
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Nov 1, 2020:
An autumn morning
Dreary days of wind and rain
Sweeping sodden leaves
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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 โฆ
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Oct 8, 2020:
Currently reading: The Fire of Joy by Clive James ๐
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Oct 6, 2020:
From standup to stanzas: Frank Skinner’s terrific guide to poetry ๐
Now embarking on its โฆ
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Oct 1, 2020:
France divided over calls for Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine to be reburied in Panthรฉon ๐ The โฆ
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Sep 28, 2020:
Clive James: ‘The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life’ ๐ โฆ
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Sep 27, 2020:
‘He returned to what he really was’: Clive James’s daughter on his poetic farewell โฆ
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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 โฆ
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Apr 14, 2020:
Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate review โ fleet-footed and inspiriting ๐ โ Excerpt: In 1798, โฆ
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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:
Poetโs corners: a car-free tour of inspiring Wordsworth sites ๐ โ Excerpt: William Wordsworth was โฆ
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Feb 4, 2020:
Walking in London - Finding poetry, politics and more - a Flickr album ๐ท ๐
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Jan 30, 2020:
Keats Bar at the Globe. Drinking a London Pride by Fuller’s Brewery. Check in ๐บ
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Jan 30, 2020:
Keats House, Hampstead
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Jan 30, 2020:
Keats House. Check in ๐บ
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Jan 29, 2020:
Shelley in London: Poland Street ๐ โ Excerpt: Soho is my favourite part of London. I love walking โฆ
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Dec 11, 2019:
Fascism: I sometimes fear… โ link to a poem by Michael Rosen ๐
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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: โNature has come back to the centre of poetryโ โ link ๐
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Nov 14, 2019:
Baudelaireโs unknown extra verse to erotic poem revealed โ link ๐ ๐
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Nov 6, 2019:
Forward Arts Foundation in conversation with Fiona Benson โ link ๐
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Nov 6, 2019:
Currently reading: Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson ๐
Purchased after reading this review in The โฆ
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Nov 1, 2019:
Currently reading: Baudelaire by Claude Pichois and Jean Ziegler ๐
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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 โฆ
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16-bit Intel 8088 chip Oct 4, 2018
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Aug 30, 2018:
Currently reading: Percy Bysshe Shelley โ Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen ๐
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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: 2006โ2014 by Clive James ๐
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Apr 29, 2018:
Porthcawl won with the last kick of the game ๐
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Apr 13, 2018:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s remains rediscovered in wine cellar ๐
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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, โฆ
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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:
๐Bookmark โ Mary Shelley review โ sturdy literary biopic fails to resurrect spirit of author โ but I โฆ
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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, โฆ
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Apr 21, 2017:
Patrick Jones #poetry at Tramshed Cardiff @TramshedCF @heretic101 #Hipstamatic โฆ
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Mar 11, 2017:
RT @BBCInOurTime: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, conceived in a long summer storm in 1816, was โฆ
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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 โฆ
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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: Shelleyโs 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 โฆ
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Feb 6, 2010:
My Top 3 Weekly #lastfm artists: Shearwater (21), Chumbawamba (13) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (4) โฆ