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.
My stories
Nocturne
Nocturne - a night scene. Image taken by Chris Gampat used under Licence CC by SA 2.0 Source Flicker
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The Green Man
If I explain it... well let's just say poems are like jokes, explain them and they don't work. CCA-SA 3.0 Licence Source Wikipedia SiGarb ( talk | contribs )
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Impressing Miss Axelrod
Ahh...nostalgia. It's always the music, isn't it? Image author's own, as for its subject, Go Ask Alice...
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Steinmätscher (Muddier of Stones)
I learned something from @LevParikian (Twitter's premier Twitcher if you're interested in birds) this morning. So, as is my wont, I went off on a tangent and wrote this. Image licence is CC-BY SA2.5 source Wikipedia photographer Andreas Trepte.
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Millicent Frome
Doggerel. Image source pinterest. No known copyright issues.
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The beauty of
Posted on Wed, 19 Feb 2020
a classical education, recognising the names of planets' obscure moons. That suggests Boris would be quite at home, Trump perhaps would not. Although I admit both deserve to be under the Lord of the Underworld's aegis.
Read full commentAnyway. I love this...
Posted in Pluto’s ode to Charon
Congratulations!
Posted on Tue, 04 Feb 2020
You get better and better at this kind of beautiful, bucolic poetry and that's why it is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day.
Read full commentPosted in Present
Thank you
Posted on Wed, 15 Jan 2020
for being such a good egg, in spite of the grim business you're dealing with. My mum, who nursed my Dad through a long drawn out dementia decline, is now difficult, inclined to see slights where none are intended. My sister bears the entire...
Read full commentPosted in The Low Men
Splendid
Posted on Tue, 24 Dec 2019
stuff. How marvellous that Spartak Moscow is quite a villainous chap, as back in the bad old days their football team was full of soldiers who were quite villainous themselves.
I do like the bold type for certain things that would have...
Read full commentPosted in MovieLand! (A Christmas Story. Part 1)
I voted every
Posted on Mon, 18 Nov 2019
time whilst I lived in Spain until they said I couldn't. Why wouldn't I vote now? Despite what the poem says....
Read full commentPosted in We Fools
This gorgeous piece
Posted on Tue, 08 Oct 2019
that's about soup - and contains surprises just like the catch-all soup our (grand)parents made from leftovers and whatever they grew- is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Why not share AND retweet if you like it too?
Read full commentPosted in This October Brings Endings
No, I didn't either
Posted on Sat, 26 Aug 2017
because by the time I started with OU Eliot and Pound were no longer "suitable". I bought Eliot's poetry with annotations. I was lucky that I'd studied Latin and French to to A-Level along with English. No Eliot there either! I love the...
Read full commentPosted in Evening Walk in a Seaside Town
Madcap
Posted on Mon, 09 Sep 2019
humour is the only antidote to extremism... Where are the satirists? They should be firing broadsides port and starboard, the answer to the rise of the right is most definitely not a jump to the left, despite what Frank'N'Furter says.
Read full commentAh...
Posted in Tsk
Sad and Wistful
Posted on Mon, 09 Sep 2019
laughter in the dark. I hope it makes you feel better, because it does me - and I expect it does everyone with any sense who reads it. Brava!
Read full commentPosted in Pad Life: The Elephant In The Room
This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Posted on Tue, 20 Aug 2019
The ever quirky hudsonmoon tries something different today and by golly it works well. That's why it's our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Why not share or retweet if you like it too?
Read full commentPosted in The Son God
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