"The dark, peopled water"

Aug 05, 2016 20:34

I'm not long back from a week in the West Country with cybermule (H)! She met me off the coach and we took her son to Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. Predictably we didn't get much past the geology and biology sections. I looked at a stuffed yellowhammer and remembered the little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheese call I used to hear in the fields around my parents ( Read more... )

books, birds, the sea, beer, lovers

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cybermule August 5 2016, 22:19:28 UTC
Nice rocket :-P

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ashlyme August 9 2016, 22:39:21 UTC
I can't really answer that except in a Kenneth Williams voice.

Love you. <3

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sovay August 5 2016, 23:30:50 UTC
Sean O' Brien's The Drowned Book. I wish I'd discovered his poems earlier! - he writes water well.The subject line comes from him.)

He's so good! "River-doors are not sea-doors." You will also like his collection HMS Glasshouse (1991).

I finally received the 2014 Dwarf Star Award plaque that I won for my poem And Deeper Than Did Ever Plummet Sound.

Congratulations! Speaking of writing water well.

That sounds like a wonderful week.

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ashlyme August 9 2016, 22:43:39 UTC
*You will also like his collection HMS Glasshouse (1991).*

I'll look out for that, thank you! I'm loving this one so far. He has a great sense of wry humour.

*Congratulations! Speaking of writing water well.*

Cheers! The week was *fantastic*.

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