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Brumes et pluies, ô endormeuse saison.

An election-themed poem by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, who turned 90 this year. Re: the Hofmann connection, I remember CWC telling me he babysat MH in that poet’s early youth.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti mourns Top the wombat.

Non dignus sum, domine: words not to say at an Incan religious ceremony. From a Hayden Carruth poem.

'Ya boo, stupid Tennyson, so you're poet laureate, so what, I'm much better than you', writes a Victorian correspondent.

John Donne launches his range of patent incontinence pads.

What is the great poem of our time. Alan Jenkins has an answer in the TLS.

Dealbh naoimh Jude in eaglais Bhaile an Fheirtéaraigh, Ciarraí.

‘That is no cat-tree for old men’.

I was sitting in a middle seat on an airplane the other day when a man signalled to me that he would be sitting by the window, which to my slight alarm he did by announcing ‘I’m inside you’.

Would it be accurate to say the word ‘discomfiting’ is now extinct - hunted to extinction by ‘discomforting’? A red squirrel/grey squirrel-style situation.

Love among the tea bags.

When you insert a parking ticket and it comes out again, does the machine ‘outsert’ it, asks eight-year-old.

Emil Cioran and Benjamin Fondane’s improbable post-WWII hangouts.

Would definitely watch this.

A student presenting on Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain today cited a goodreads review that described the Lairig Ghru as a ‘heathen plateau’. #paganscotland?!

Interesting to learn that Mabel Brygge of small Holderness village Welwick was executed in 1538 for fasting - fasting with the intention of killing Henry VIII, no less. Among the more unreliable murder methods, I would have thought.

Why would I need to learn how not to read books?!

Spelt from sybil's leaves: a mysterious and fragmentary sonnet from Ange Mlinko's new Foxglovewise.

radiotoday.co.uk/2024/06/bbc-ra… HOMAGE @petroctrelawny No matter how dog-tired or yawny I am waking up, nothing corny Awaits on reveille Because did I tell ye You can always count on Trelawny.