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Continue reading →: John Hewitt – not just a great bar
John Hewitt’s poetry (http://library.ulster.ac.uk/craine/hewitt/work.htm#if ) If I should be remembered after this, pray providence it be by happy men who do not feel the skull behind the kiss, the bony knuckles round the rusting pen, but summon from the stiff archaic words a heart whose pulse in its best moments…
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Continue reading →: odespinner is in Donegal
How quickly it can all change from wondrous beauty to grey dullness. A little too much cloud, persistent rain and the landscape no longer captures the imagination but becomes dreary and indoors is the only place to be, preferably with a fire banked up with turf and a mug of…
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Continue reading →: Greetings from an ode spinner
Hi Bloggging about odes, poems, rhymes should be easy enough, I hope. There once was a man who thought he might be able to sell the odd ode online. He was cruelly disabused of that notion. The world is not yet ready for what might loosely be described as humorous…