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“She took the sea with her
Not beaches but the grey
relentless Irish sea,
its rhythm and the crying gulls.”
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Not beaches but the grey
relentless Irish sea,
its rhythm and the crying gulls.”
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“That as he climbs out of the trench
with the rest of the lads
he feels lifted up as if by angels.”
― Voices from Stone and Bronze
with the rest of the lads
he feels lifted up as if by angels.”
― Voices from Stone and Bronze
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| All About Books: 2016 Bingo Challenge | 309 | 418 | Jan 13, 2017 12:15PM |
“Someday,
you will take the notebook that has awaited you
forever and begin to construct your walls of song
and then, leap over them.”
― Night Journey
you will take the notebook that has awaited you
forever and begin to construct your walls of song
and then, leap over them.”
― Night Journey
“Back from where? you're not going out again and leaving me here are you?? Holy Hercules I sound like somebody's wife”
― Terra Incognita
― Terra Incognita
“I think I was about twenty-five when I first said - more or less to myself - that I was quite a good second-rate poet. I repeated it aloud in a Guardian interview in 1976, and some people thought I was a coy old thing.”
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“Dylan [Thomas] I knew before and after he became famous. He was splendid, rapacious, demanding as a young man. To much has been written about him for me to add to the legend. As that legend began to grow in his lifetime I learned to separate him from his poetry, to find him in person increasingly tedious and his poems increasingly exciting, both in print and when he was reading them.”
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“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
― Cat’s Eye
― Cat’s Eye
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Valerie wrote: "Thanks for the friend invite Caroline - I sometimes find it hard to keep up with all these great sites but give it my best. I really enjoyed Convoy - powerful insight into real life events and the ..."Thanks Valerie. I'm pleased you enjoyed Convoy. I know what you mean about social media. One could spend all day on one website or the other and never get any writing done!
Thanks for the friend invite Caroline - I sometimes find it hard to keep up with all these great sites but give it my best. I really enjoyed Convoy - powerful insight into real life events and the people caught up in them.
Ije the Devourer of Books wrote: "Thanks for the friend invite :)"Thanks for accepting. I look forward to chatting about books.
Thanks for the friend invite :)
Caroline, I just noticed a page on Poetry Foundation's website about David Jones and his art, that also includes a link to an essay on him by Tom Sleigh: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harri...
So glad to meet you on here. I'm very excited about this upcoming course. It's been years since I've taken a poetry course, and I'm a bit rusty. I love that you're reading Czesław Miłosz. I really enjoy his poetry. I don't know anyone else who's heard of him. Take care!
Thanks Geevee. Glad you enjoyed it. There is more about the men in the poems on my blog if you wanted some background although some of them like Tom Neil you probably know about already.
Just read it Caroline well done - and great work too :)
Mark wrote: "Hi Caoline,Thanks for the friend invite. As to how "A Dangerous Thing" ended up on my military shelf...no idea - lol! Looking forward to talking books with you...."
Hi Mark
Thanks for accepting. Happy to talk books with you too. You could put 'Out of the Blue' onto your military shelf, that would fit.
Carpoline
Hi Caoline,
Thanks for the friend invite. As to how "A Dangerous Thing" ended up on my military shelf...no idea - lol! Probably my finger slipped on my ipad when sorting, which happens very often.
Looking forward to talking books with you.
Na wrote: "Just a few words to wish you good luck for your book launch tomorrow. Have a lovely day, Caroline. ;)"Thanks Na, that's most kind of you.
Hey Caroline, I've started the collected Auden. This is supposedly all the poetry that Auden himself wished to have preserved for posterity. Personally, I could have done without the first 40 pages, which consisted of one weird play and poems in which he suffered from an "a" and "the" phobia. The first poem that really struck me as accomplished is "The Watchers," which was written when he would have been about 25. He certainly had impressive talent at a young age! And his versatility is evident even though I'm only on page 70. I think the variety will make the 673 pages of poetry an interesting read.
Hello Caroline,How are you? Thank you for accepting my friend-request. I wish you all the best.
Please visit these groups when you have a chance: Happy & Brainy Group, To the Glory of Man, Reason Reigns, and Goodreads Tea Party. Have a marvelous Friday and weekend. Warmest regards.
