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Sunday, August 3, 2014

News

Mysterious Velella washing up on california coast

The kite follows the wind
The bird too
The Blue Velella

If you have seen the latest Hangover movie you will recognise Giraffe dies in transit

Biopoem

Today while applying to Bridgewater International Poetry Festival, I was thinking of how to write the bio and came across How to write a biopoem and some examples.

Pursuer, Walker
Grandchild of Laxmamma
Who loves learning, observing
Who needs books, words, meaning
Who fears large bodies of water
Who tweets weird metaphors
Who would like to see ‘Paper Palace’

And then I thought instead of just writing the list of magazines, my work has appeared in, why not write of the subjects too, so the readers know more about the themes that I have been working with.
Only while applying for Madeleine Plonsker prize, did I get a concrete idea of nostalgia and grouped those poems into one set. (clarify - make clear  - clarified butter). These days I am getting aware of everyday words and their origins.

Colliding Worlds

The Crossword Century




Translation
Addiction
Crossword Tournament
Crosswords in movies, literature.
A medical bill had some code hat I recognised as a palindrome of my last name as an identifier at the bottom of the page.
Alan Connor








Saturday, August 2, 2014

Unruly Places



Sandy island the island that never was
Thalweg

"Hidden Geographies are the inverse of lost spaces.."
An Island that never was is a great hook into a book of uncommon geography. Leningrad and other countries and cities that change their name made me think of such recently affected places.
"New Moore looked like a political problem caused by nature and solved by climate change."
I had read about the aral sea depleting but this essay put it in the timeline context of its past and future.
This book with its look at borders, places uninhabited, distances kept from uncontacted tribes will make you rethink your sense of place, why we travel, where we live and where we chose to.

North sentinel island
Chitmahals

On one page, gent appeared, a word break with ur on the left side of the page, which made think of urgent origin.

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Cassell's Readable Readers



The 'White Cat' story in this book is included in John Ashbery's Collected French Translations Prose.
some poems by Wordsworth
Coming of Age - Ring the Bells by Mrs hawtrey
The Eagle's Nest story

What is the chisel