Economic migrant, 90s poet. 'Doyen of debris'. Neo-classical Aberdeenshire Jacobite. Gaeilge Sruth na Maoile agam. Novel, Stretto, published by CB Editions.
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HOMAGE @petroctrelawny
No matter how dog-tired or yawny
I am waking up, nothing corny
Awaits on reveille
Because did I tell ye
You can always count on Trelawny.
Interesting to learn that Mabel Brygge of small Holderness village Welwick was executed in 1538 for fasting - fasting with the intention of killing Henry VIII, no less. Among the more unreliable murder methods, I would have thought.
Heritage Talk: Mabel Brygge of Welwick vs King Henry VIII
Carol Osgerby will show that the remotest village was aware of what was happening in London, and will relate a sad and strange story of a witch, prosecuted for treason.
Friday, 22 Nov 12:30 - 1:30pm
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A student presenting on Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain today cited a goodreads review that described the Lairig Ghru as a ‘heathen plateau’. #paganscotland?!
When you insert a parking ticket and it comes out again, does the machine ‘outsert’ it, asks eight-year-old.
Would it be accurate to say the word ‘discomfiting’ is now extinct - hunted to extinction by ‘discomforting’? A red squirrel/grey squirrel-style situation.
I was sitting in a middle seat on an airplane the other day when a man signalled to me that he would be sitting by the window, which to my slight alarm he did by announcing ‘I’m inside you’.
'Ya boo, stupid Tennyson, so you're poet laureate, so what, I'm much better than you', writes a Victorian correspondent.
Non dignus sum, domine: words not to say at an Incan religious ceremony. From a Hayden Carruth poem.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti mourns Top the wombat.
154 years ago #onthisday, Top the wombat died. He was the pet of the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti who, upon Top's passing, created this self-portrait in mourning. More on Rossetti and co’s curious but longstanding fixation with the #wombat here: buff.ly/3D16FRG
An election-themed poem by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, who turned 90 this year. Re: the Hofmann connection, I remember CWC telling me he babysat MH in that poet’s early youth.
