Ewan
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Ewan Lawrie
The picture is me signing copies of my novel, Gibbous House at Unbound Books HQ in Islington by the canal.
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The Picture Ranch 45
a little bit more... may even finish this soon... Image created by author.
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Adlertag
Today is the anniversary of Adlertag (Eagle Day) the Luftwaffe's failed attempt to bomb the RAF out of existence. Picture source is wikipedia.org
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Dreizehn
Some of this is true... Image is used in acc w. CC BY-SA 3.0 de source is Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-85458-0003 / Junge, Peter Heinz / CC-BY-SA 3.0
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Shadows and Dust
Ah well, make of it what you like. Image is CC Public Domain from PXHere.com
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These You Have Loved
yeah, well... image is copyright John Garghan https://www.flickr.com/photos/johngarghan/14897236961 licence is CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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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....
Read full commentPosted in Tail-end
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...
Read full commentPosted in Grimms5
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.
Posted on Tue, 13 Aug 2019
A comforting read, do click the link and listen to it being read extremely well by the author.
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Posted in "It was the Daisy...."
This one and
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2019
your last one feel/read like you're trying something different. If you're going to use wind etc with no article the/a/this/that etc. maybe try capitalising them, sometimes no article makes it harder to read and detracts from the beautiful image (...
Read full commentPosted in Ice Age
It's fairly recent
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2019
from a US radio advertising campaign from the 30's I think. It means this is going/has started well - possibly after repeated failed attempts. Popularised by Jack Benny and the like in comedy sketches thereafter.
Read full commentPosted in Cooking On Gas
Science and Poetry
Posted on Wed, 26 Jun 2019
something which the world needs much more of, I believe -and I'm in good company.
Read full commentNowhere would anyone grant that science and poetry can be united. They forgot that science arose from poetry, and did not see that when times change the...
Posted in The post-trauma of Jupiter
Most enjoyable.
Posted on Thu, 07 Feb 2019
One or two things. Incognito is one word.
Kirk is almost exclusively used for Church in the Church of Scotland. Your priest(s) are Catholics, I presume, since they practise the rite of Exorcism.
I like the idea of the stories being...
Read full commentPosted in Adam Maxwell -Farquhar (Tale 2- Work in Progress)
I wonder
Posted on Thu, 31 Jan 2019
what the playground chants are now... we used to parrot chants about Ho Chi Minh, with no clue where Vietnam was. This has that kind of hypnotic rhythm. Cleverly done.
best
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Posted in Don't count your chickens
This splendid poem
Posted on Wed, 23 Jan 2019
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Read full commentImage is copyright Dave Bevis source is https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3381711 and it is...
Posted in Thanks in part to Louis M and William W: another love poem
Nice
Posted on Wed, 23 Jan 2019
to see a dialect word in a poem (jitty) if we don't use them they'll die out. For those of a Yorkshire persuasion it's a ginnel, and if you're Jockinese (like me), it's a close.
Beautifully done.
best
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Posted in Thanks in part to Louis M and William W: another love poem
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