Originally posted on The Internet Review of Books:
Star rating: ★★★★★ Order H is for Hawk from Amazon UK An in-depth review of this book is in preparation. Meanwhile, follow the above link to LOOK INSIDE or to download a free sample of the opening chapters. Publisher’s blurb: “In real life, goshawks resemble sparrowhawks the way leopards…
Three poetic contributions to the Independence debate The ’45a: an alternative reality. 1 Song: Lament for the last battle honour of the Black Watch. 1 In Memoriam Hugh MacDiarmid. 1 The ’45a: an alternative reality He was bonnie enough, I’ll give ye that, with his Frenchified ways and perfumed hands. More suited to a Paris salon than plodging … Continue reading
The following verse has been omitted, for obvious reasons! Of all the blessings planned on you bestowing Your children all around in fullness growing. Young life springs up anew each new day dawning Like flowers in the dew of a spring morning. Continue reading
Originally posted on We are all Palestinians:
Israeli Government-funded hate organisation targets Islamic wedding Lehava, which campaigns under the slogan of “saving the daughters of Israel”, and receives up to $175,000 per year from the Israeli state, over half of its operational budget, urged protesters to bring loudspeakers and horns to the wedding of Mahmoud…
By Jonathan Webb Science reporter, BBC News Engineers in the US have built a swarm of 1,000 little robots that can shuffle into specific formations on command. Each of the identical robots is given a picture of the required shape, and then they work together to make it happen. It takes up to 12 hours, … Continue reading
Illness prevented me from getting to London for this Gaza demo, but this picture of the crowd packing Regent Street outside All Soul’s, my old church, is truly astonishing. When we marched against the Iraq war we filled the street like this. How can the BBC ignore this happening right outside Broadcasting House? Continue reading
Because of illness, Karl Dallas won’t be going to Cropredy after all so the planned Simple Gifts daily folk shows have had to be cancelled. During September the BCB Movietime, Classical Hour – Modern Masterpieces, and Swing Easy radio shows will not be broadcast, and KD will not present the Round Table talk show. Hopefully, there’ll be a … Continue reading
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