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Moonstruck | Poetry from John Looker
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Poetry from John Looker. Formerly: The poetry:prose/prose:poetry converter. Posted by: John Looker. 21 June, 2015. A warm summer evening with shooting stars overhead and glow-worms in the long grass, the hum of holiday traffic and the perfume of night-scented flowers suspended in the slow-moving air. Here in the garden the party-goers’ voices rising higher than each other, music playing, and intimations of Persia or Arabia with glasses of sherbet, silk-clad women and sword-bearing men. On 22 June, 2015.
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The first poem | Poetry from John Looker
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Poetry from John Looker. Formerly: The poetry:prose/prose:poetry converter. The original title of this blog was was “The poetry:prose/prose:poetry converter”, taken from the first poem I posted when I began the blog in 2009. I reproduce it here. It’s really a poem about poetry. The illustrations are by Hannah Stoney, taken with permission from her blog (see the blogroll opposite); I love the imagination combined with precision in her art. Today sees the launch of a new and exciting product,. God looked o...
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May | 2016 | Andy Fleck's Blog
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Andy Fleck's Blog. You Know Nothing, Angela Merkel. May 1, 2016. As last week, I looked at the similarities between Daenerys and George Bush, this week I have some thoughts on another unlikely comparison between a Game of Thrones character and a contemporary political figure. No season six spoilers here, by the way, but if you’re not up to date with season five, stop reading now! You Know Nothing, Angela Merkel. Daenerys, Bush and Missions Unaccomplished. The Strange Death of the English R.
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Daenerys, Bush and Missions Unaccomplished | Andy Fleck's Blog
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Andy Fleck's Blog. Daenerys, Bush and Missions Unaccomplished. April 23, 2016. April 24, 2016. But I was thinking more in terms of their politics and, depending on how things turn out in Martin’s series, the legacies they leave on their respective planets . In the series, a brutish former slave becomes a tin pot tyrant and leads an army to conquer Daenerys’ power base in Mereen – it seems many of the people she freed decide they quite like violence and servitude after all. George W. Bush. Nicely put R...
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Those Pesky Huguenots | Andy Fleck's Blog
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Andy Fleck's Blog. April 10, 2016. April 10, 2016. Huguenots, French Protestants fleeing the bloody religious wars of France in the 16th and early 17th centuries, get a good press as immigrants who settled in England quickly and without trouble. It was a little surprising then, reading Burgess’s. A Dead Man in Deptford,. Canterbury [Marlowe complains] is my town and it is infested with Huguenots. Infested, you say infested? You will use another word. Would you, Walsingham browed at him, rather have a Cat...
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The Strange Death of the English R | Andy Fleck's Blog
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Andy Fleck's Blog. The Strange Death of the English R. March 20, 2016. March 20, 2016. In one part of Burgess’s. A Dead Man in Deptford. The playwright Christopher Marlowe is sent on a mission among the English Catholic exiles in the Low Countries by the spy master Francis Walsingham. As he listens to the speech of an old priest at the English College he starts to notice a subtle defect in his speech:. Scotland, remain resolutely rhotic. The loss of the terminal. This royal throne of kings, this scepte.
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The Human Hive: now available for Kindle | Poetry from John Looker
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Poetry from John Looker. Formerly: The poetry:prose/prose:poetry converter. Posted by: John Looker. 26 July, 2015. The Human Hive: now available for Kindle. John Looker’s poetry collection,. Recently published by Bennison Books, is now available for Kindle. Posted in miscellaneous posts. Laquo; Behold The Beetle. On 26 July, 2015. But you are a significant poet. Liked by 1 person. On 15 October, 2015. Well, you have always been most encouraging Thomas, and thank you. On 15 October, 2015. Liked by 1 person.
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Chestnut Blossom | Poetry from John Looker
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Poetry from John Looker. Formerly: The poetry:prose/prose:poetry converter. Posted by: John Looker. 31 May, 2015. Suddenly there’s a breeze. And the trees are weeping blossom. Would we have it otherwise:. No fruit, no colours of autumn? Photo Tom Stevens 2015. The photo came first. It was taken by Tom Stevens who describes it as merely an iPhone snap, but in fact it’s both beautiful and moving, isn’t it? More of his photography can be found at:. Https:/ theweedsandwilderness.wordpress.com. On 31 May, 2015.
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Behold The Beetle | Poetry from John Looker
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Poetry from John Looker. Formerly: The poetry:prose/prose:poetry converter. Posted by: John Looker. 23 July, 2015. In the tangles of the garden undergrowth,. Has left the stump of an apple-tree. In the soil among the roots is the pupa:. In its cell, the pale grub lying squeezed. Waiting until time, DNA or the sun will. As the old lamp found in Aladdin’s cave is. And the Genie, grotesque and implacable,. It is Other, it is Alien, and yet like the djinn. It is made it might say in the image of God. I guess...
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April | 2016 | Andy Fleck's Blog
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Andy Fleck's Blog. Daenerys, Bush and Missions Unaccomplished. April 23, 2016. April 24, 2016. But I was thinking more in terms of their politics and, depending on how things turn out in Martin’s series, the legacies they leave on their respective planets . In the series, a brutish former slave becomes a tin pot tyrant and leads an army to conquer Daenerys’ power base in Mereen – it seems many of the people she freed decide they quite like violence and servitude after all. April 10, 2016. April 10, 2016.
