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  • Robert Rendall

    His poems are hard to find online, and I’m not up to paying for a book to be shipped from UK (yet), but here are a couple to remember meanwhile. CRAGSMAN’S WIDOW He was aye vaigan b’ the shore, An’ climman round the craigs, Swappan among the auks, Or taakan whitemaa aiggs. It’s six year

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  • Rewards of being social

    As part of my attempt to interact with people I friended a person on DW solely based on their poetry taste and was rewarded with Edwin Muir’s The Horses. Barely a twelvemonth afterThe seven days war that put the world to sleep,Late in the evening the strange horses came.By then we had made our covenant

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  • Links post

    Trying out a new thing where instead of forwarding links for later I just put them all in one long post 🙂 The comments are the best part – famous poems as limericks Really cool dolls Ancient Somali/Ethiopian religion Eebe Waaq & Waaqeffana Interesting conversation on a Somali forum as a consequence to recent elections

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