Ewan
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"Meh-tha tur-ah?"
The title? You'll have to read it to see what that means... Picture is the Bridge at Belleek, which will form part of a hard UK Eire border, should it come to that. Source is wikipedia commons.
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No Good Deed 94 (WMDN)
Is there more to the mystery of Moffat than even he guesses? The picture is of the frontispiece of "The 40 Virtues of Armagnac" by Cardinal Dufour. Readers of Gibbous House will have come across this enlightening and uplifting work of early Catholic literature... Image is copyright The Vatican Library, taken from www.armagnac.fr used in accordance with CC licence.
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Fistulous Withers
I know what it really is... I just think it would make a great name... Doggerel, daft and dire. Image is wikipedia commons.
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Empty Manifesto
Read it out in the manner of Christopher Ecclestone reading Evidently Chickentown... clean the mirror afterwards. Image from Pixabay Free for commercial use, no attribution required CC0 Creative Commons
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No Good Deed 93 (WMDN)
A plan? Really? Image is Wikipedia Commons and is free of copyright. Mock engraving courtesy of cooltext.com
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One thing you will
Posted on Thu, 06 Jul 2017
find by doing this, is that your description in any prose you do write will be tighter, more compact, more effective, it's something I was told would happen if I wrote more poetry. I'm not completely sure it has for me, but it will for you....
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It's the mothballs
Posted on Tue, 10 Jan 2017
I remember, and the faint smell of Lion pee and Turkish Delight.... hahaha. I do not know anyone who has never explored their parents' wardrobe. When I was 8, my dad's wardrobe had hundreds of football programmes from the 40's and 50's; Rangers...
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There are always
Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017
at least two poems on the page: the one the writer wrote and the one the reader understands (or not). Poetry truly is the infinite art, since its meaning is open to infinite interpretations. I know many people who do not enjoy this nebulous...
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2nd
Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017
person narration is notoriously difficult to pull off, but you've managed it well. What I like so much about what you do is the vast swathes of subtext, the gaps between the lines that are so tempting to fill and that we are unlikely to get wrong...
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I've
Posted on Tue, 16 Feb 2010
always been interested in how language places people in time as well as place. The Picture Ranch (another long half-finished novel on ABC)'s narrator sounds very different to the Narrator of Gibbous House and this its sequel. What other prose I...
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You
Posted on Thu, 14 Sep 2017
missed the "Flight" from Flight Lieutenant: No Lieutenants since the RFC became the RAF in 1918,
Best, Ewan, (former Flight Sergeant, No. 51 Sqn)
Read full commentPosted in The Second World War: PART 4 - Andrew MacDonald - Sagan (1943)
This
Posted on Tue, 14 May 2013
is poetry. This is life.
This is sharp and it cuts like a knife.
Lovely, lovely poetry. Hope we hear more from Shoe sometime soon.
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I
Posted on Sat, 26 Aug 2017
like to think I am capable of separating the art from the artist.
Years and years ago I did A101 Arts Foundation course with the OU (it would have been about '83). At summer school in Hounslow (!) we trashed a whole afternoon with the...
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Yes,
Posted on Tue, 22 Aug 2017
not obvious, certainly layered - and thought provoking. Good use of the opposites in conjunction and the occasional alliteration, all the while making it look effortless.
Very good indeed.
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And
Posted on Wed, 09 Aug 2017
"Against All Odds" is a crime against music. As such, it suits the film for which it was the title song beautifully. I would imagine it would clear any dance floor of all but the desperate-to-have-a-"slowy" teenagers.
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