About John Clare

The History Girls: NIGHTJAR AKA THE GOATSUCKER, by Jane ... by Jane Borodale (2013/05/21 17:00)
Poet and naturalist Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) wrote, 'While, by the lingering light, I scarcely discern/The shrieking night-jar sail on heavy wing.' John Clare (1793-1864) mentions it frequently. The warm undulating churring ...
Welcome To The Fantasy Zone Presents: KUNG FU ... - Tim Clare by Tim Clare (2013/05/21 05:04)
Tim Clare's Cone O' Tragedy. Skip to content. Home · Poems · Who's John? Cameo Hundesser, Style Consultant to the Wicked · Little Gods · One Day, It Will Be Ackroyd · Replacements · Sleuth · The Impossible Deathbed Lament Of .... Tim Clare's Cone O' Tragedy: How To Deal With A Heckler · Death Of 1000 Cuts: Cut 2 – Stop Handling Causality Badly, Causing Me To Hurl Your Novel At The Wall · Poem O' The Week: Sunrise In The Corpse Garden · Welcome To ...
2009 | dooneyscafe.com by Jean Baird (2013/05/21 01:08)
The novel takes its plot from a time when the now-regaled environmental poet John Clare was in the innovative mental institute of Matthew Allen. Dr. Allen invented a disastrous wood carving machine, convinced Alfred ...
News Monday « Tim Clare by Tim Clare (2013/05/20 03:27)
Tim Clare. Tim Clare's Cone O' Tragedy. Skip to content. Home · Poems · Who's John? Cameo Hundesser, Style Consultant to the Wicked · Little Gods · One Day, It Will Be Ackroyd · Replacements · Sleuth · The Impossible ...
Vietnamese Poet Tản Đà Born on This Date | The Write Stuff by ljackson2013 (2013/05/19 07:00)
... Accuses Malowe · John Clare Died on This Date → ... He used both European influences and traditional Sino-Vietnamese forms; he was a transitional figure between the 1890s and the “New Poetry” movement of the 1930s.
A Growing Concern | Andrew Oldham's Boneyard by andrewoldhamsboneyard (2013/05/17 13:31)
Several decades on MacDiarmid's fears have passed. Government is capitalism and all land is owned. John Clare, poor bugger. The rest of us, silly buggers for letting it happen. We need poetry, like we need a swift kick up ...
Tim Clare's Cone O' Tragedy: How To Deal With A Heckler « Tim Clare by Tim Clare (2013/05/17 05:58)
Tim Clare's Cone O' Tragedy: How To Deal With A Heckler. 17 May 2013, 1:58 pm. How To Deal With A Heckler. Occasionally, in your stand-up or spoken word career, you may have to contend with a difficult audience member. This need not ...
If Carlsberg did Conferences… - Helena Pielichaty by Helena (2013/05/17 04:42)
I Am (poem written from a lunatic asylum) - John Clare. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee. Jamaica Inn – Daphne Du Maurier. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury. A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness ...
Death Of 1000 Cuts: Cut 2 – Stop Handling Causality ... - Tim Clare by Tim Clare (2013/05/15 16:22)
... The After Hours · Mrs Fuck · Fringe · Pub Stuntman · Biography · Video · Shows · Images · Books · Blog · Frontpage · The Wall · Gay Day · Wo Shi Shi Ren · Events · Feed. « Poem O' The Week: Sunrise In The Corpse Garden ...
Anyone in John Clare accommodation 2013-14 - The Student Room by HarryOSullivan (2013/05/15 15:17)
Anyone in John Clare accommodation 2013-14” discussion on The Student Room's University of Northampton forum. ... Official Poetry AQA GCSE thread - Thursday 23rd may 2013. Started by: ryanb97; Forum: English ...
Poem O' The Week: Sunrise In The Corpse Garden « Tim Clare by Tim Clare (2013/05/15 09:08)
We have named them after fungi: the blusher, / destroying angel, the sickener, / penny bun. I take a swatch of glottal tissue / from penny bun's throat and suspend it in alcohol; / sun strikes the bottle; flakes of skin turn black as ...
University Reader to appreciate the work of John Clare at Althorp ... by unknown (2013/05/14 02:39)
The University of Northampton News - University Reader to appreciate the work of John Clare at Althorp Literary Festival - Dr Charles Bennett, award-winning poet and Reader in Poetry at the University of Northampton, will be ...
Michael Portillo, Germaine Greer, John Clare Trust, Peterborough ... by noreply@blogger.com (Martin Brookes) (2013/05/14 02:23)
Michael Portillo, Germaine Greer, John Clare Trust, Peterborough Festival of Poetry, We Love Words. John Clare Trust. Michael Portillo and Germaine Greer, Peterborough Festival of Poetry and Literature. September 20th ...
John Clare Weblog: By A Cottage Near A Wood (excerpt) by DEI-EX (2013/05/14 00:10)
From Helpston in rural Northamptonshire, John Clare was born in 1793. He is now regarded as the most important poet of the natural world from Britain. He wrote many poems, essays, journals and letters about love, sex, ...
Tim Clare's Cone O' Tragedy: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And ... by Tim Clare (2013/05/10 04:32)
Tim Clare's Cone O' Tragedy: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Performance Poetry. 10 May 2013, 12:32 pm. On Tuesday night, coming home from my gig in Hackney, I had an idea. Well, 'idea' is too grandiose – more accurately, ...
rhymingfrancis: Useless To John Clare by Francis Duggan (2013/05/07 15:54)
A major English poet of Nature his type are so rare. And posthumous fame is useless to John Clare Millions in money spent in a court case over his poems copy-wright. Yet in his sad lifetime he was seen as a lesser light ...
NWFed: for museum people in the North West » Excellent interview ... by The Fed (2013/05/07 06:18)
The John Clare Trust was formed in 2005 with the goal of obtaining Clare Cottage (the birthplace and family home of John Clare, the renowned Victorian 'peasant' poet) and transforming it into a site of historical, cultural and ...
Arts head: Sara Blair-Manning, the John Clare Trust and Cottage ... by Jeff Graham (2013/05/07 03:58)
The John Clare Trust was formed in 2005 with the goal of obtaining Clare Cottage (the birthplace and family home of John Clare, the renowned Victorian 'peasant' poet) and transforming it into a site of historical, cultural and ...
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Find and price compare new and used books from 60+ stores, including books by John Clare. John Clare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Clare (13 July 1793 â€“ 20 May 1864) was an English poet, the son of a farm ...
Poetry, Prayers and Promises: To Autumn - John Clare by Wendy (2013/05/05 00:00)
collected poems,thoughts,songs and quotes to inspire you to dream. Sunday, 5 May 2013. To Autumn - John Clare. Come pensive autumn, with thy cloud and storms. and falling leaves and pastures lost to flowers. a luscious charm hangs of ...
Letter to the Editor by Mark Esrig - Poetry Foundation by unknown (2013/05/01 00:32)
I see him more like the badger in the John Clare poem, his brain fully intact. It is as easy to bait a dead Swinburne as a dead badger. But alive both are formidable. For all Robbins's cleverly connecting Stevens and Swinburne, ...
Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2013.04.60 by Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2013/04/30 19:30)
... Morton, in Ecology Without Nature (Cambridge Mass., 2007), has identified in the poetry of John Clare and other Romantic poets: a more useful comparative framework, perhaps, than Erasmus Darwin and William Bartram.
Literary and Popular Styles in Romantic and Victorian Labouring ... by readdurham (2013/04/23 04:00)
Professor John Goodridge (Nottingham Trent University) is the author of Rural Life in Eighteenth-Century English Poetry (Cambridge, 1995) and John Clare and Community (Cambridge, 2013), and general editor of ...
A poem for Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and South America ... by Cynthia Haven (2013/04/21 09:34)
is also a wonderful performer – you can compare Stewart's reading to Burton's, and see some of the the working-class poet's Northamptonshire home. Only … it's not the same poem. “Autumn” and “To Autumn” are two ...
John Clare Weblog: Justice is slow, but sure as Moses' rod by DEI-EX (2013/04/16 00:25)
“In the month of May, 1848, having seen and admired some of John Clare's poems, I felt a strong desire to have an interview with the poet”. During their interview, Clare left Hall “... and went to the boundary wall with paper and ...
THE LONG LIFE AND GREAT GOOD FORTUNE OF JOHN CLARE by @LauraKathrynBen (2013/04/12 12:00)
In the present, psychiatrist Melody is treating patient "John" who believes he is the 19th century Northamptonshire poet John Clare. Inspiring Melody, and indirectly her partner Rafe, to investigate more about the life and work ...
Filming for BBC Countryfile programme at John Clare Cottage ... by pennylessduo (2013/04/11 09:45)
Penny and Les have been asked to play and chat about their involvement and interest in John Clare the Northamptonshire poet. FIlming with John Craven and playing live in the Blue Bell Inn, Helpston where John Clare ofttimes played.
I am, An Invite to Eternity: Proposal by John Clare - British Romantic ... by Kait (2013/04/08 22:33)
In John Clare's “I am” and “An Invite to Eternity,” he writes about the alienation he felt towards his close friends and family during his time in Northampton General Lunatic Asylum, “To live in death and be the same / Without this life, or home, or name / At once to be and not to be –.” (lines 19-21) ... The “sweet maid” in this poem, can be seen as a figment of the speaker's mind, not an actual person present, but perhaps someone from the speaker's past. If we were to ...
Poets in Profile: Jack Hannan | Open Book: Toronto by Grace (2013/04/04 06:28)
It's quite arbitrary to name one, and I don't wish that I had written it, but here's a poem I liked a lot: "Coming Home: From the Journals of John Clare". This is a poem that Anthony Hecht wrote, using lines or suggestions from the ...
Today's Poem: John Clare - Logophilius by noreply@blogger.com (4ndyman) (2013/04/04 05:31)
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Review: Discovering John Clare | Ipswich24 Magazine by admin (2013/04/03 06:15)
Eastern Angles have built a reputation for great drama and their latest production, about East Anglian poet John Clare, will not disappoint.
The Long Life And Great Good Fortune of John Clare – Sir John ... by The Public Reviews (2013/04/03 03:23)
For John, though, he's gone further than most, his troubled mental state causing him to believe he is both musician Neil Diamond and 19th century poet John Clare. The parallels of a modern day psychiatric patient choosing ...
British Romantic Literature » Nightingale's Nest by John Clare by hosorio (2013/04/01 12:08)
John Clare contributed to the expansion of British romantic literature by composing numerous poems. One of the poems that Clare had created is titled “The Nightingale's Nest”. This poem follows the thought process of the ...
Featured Poem: Hares at Play by John Clare | The Reader Online by Lisa (2013/04/01 00:00)
The birds are gone to bed, the cows are still, / And sheep lie panting on each old mole-hill; / And underneath the willow's gray-green bough, / Like toil a-resting, lies the fallow plough. / The timid hares throw daylight fears away ...
The buzz on The Long Life and Great Good Fortune of John Clare ... by matthewlinley (2013/03/30 08:04)
john clare A finer play than its regional small space tour might suggest The Times. The Times gave the show **** . Libby Purves praises the 'three fine actors….Richard Sandells is superb as patient and poet, one moment ...
Spring Poems > My poetic side by Scott B. (2013/03/29 06:30)
One English poet who captures this annual experience is John Clare. Born in 1793 to a farm laborer, Clare was recognized early on for his poems regarding the joys of life in the English countryside; he also lamented the disruption of the same ...
MICHAEL GRAY'S ARTS BLOG: JOHN CLARE by Michael Gray (2013/03/27 14:09)
Peasant poet John Clare was born and died in East Anglia, and its countryside inspired much of his work. Eastern Angles are touring this new play around that same region; I saw it in the Quay Theatre, Sudbury, which Clare ...
The Long Life and Great Good Fortune of John Clare - The Stage by Hugh Homan (2013/03/27 04:04)
"I am - yet what I am, none cares or knows/My friends forsake me like a memory lost/I am the self-consumer of my woes." John Clare, the peasant poet.
Eastern Angles' new play about John Clare, the Peasant Poet | The ... by TheSuffolkCoast (2013/03/15 01:45)
Eastern Angles' new play by Tony Ramsay, 'The Long Life and Great Good Fortune of John Clare,' explores the myths and the facts behind the Peasant Poet.
British Romantic Literature » John Clare's “I am” and “An Invite to ... by Kait (2013/03/14 05:42)
In John Clare's I am and An Invite to Eternity, he writes about the alienation he felt towards his close friends and family during his time in Northampton General Lunatic Asylum, “I am – yet what I am, none cares or knows.” (I am, line 1). “To live in death and be the same ... for the reader to decide how the poem should be portrayed. The absence of the question mark leaves out a certainty of what can be concluded, and leaves the nature and tone of the poem ambiguous.
Stephanie Green: Nature poetry or Eco-poetry? | the StAnza Blog by stanzapoetry (2013/03/10 09:20)
'Found in the Fields' is a series of lithographs in dialogue with the poetry of the 'peasant' poet John Clare. Carry's bold, stylized lithographs, both in line and colour, contrast sweeping perspectives of farmland and geometric ...
Unpublished John Clare poem will sell for thousands by DEI-EX (2013/03/04 01:02)
Unpublished John Clare poem will sell for thousands. The handwriting looks authentic. I wonder just how many 'unpublished' Clare poems are lying in wait for discovery? BUT... there are lots unpublished in the Peterborough ...
Unpublished John Clare poem will sell for thousands - Arts ... by unknown (2013/03/02 02:30)
An unpublished verse written by Peterborough's Peasant Poet is expected to fetch thousands of pounds at a London auction.
Correspondance from a John Clare Scholar! | Finding Charles Clark by Carrie Griffin (2013/02/26 12:53)
We were delighted to receive recently an email and a letter from Dr Bob Heyes of Kent, a scholar of the poet John Clare, who very kindly sent us a photocopy of a page of the glossary of William Mavor's 1812 edition of Tusser's ...
Isola di Rifiuti: Notebook (John Clare, John Ashbery, &c.) by John Latta (2013/02/20 08:15)
On committal papers for John Clare, entering the asylum at Northampton, in reply to a query whether Clare's madness “was preceded by any severe or long continued mental emotion or exertion,” the exculpatory squib: “After years ... That blunt irretrievability of the world, its mere presence ungoaded, unfathomable, recalling Ashbery's later formulary for Clare: how—primitivist, again—“The sudden, surprising lack of distance between poet and reader is in proportion to ...
Isola di Rifiuti: Reading Notes (John Clare's Journal) by John Latta (2013/02/15 07:31)
Against the fraught pell-mell tumult of the days ongoing with their quotidian concerns, a momentary stay and conservatory found in reading John Clare's Journal (1824-25), its measure defiantly slowed, its uncommon sense of ... Some months back I began a system of profiting by my reading at least to make a show of it by noting down beautiful odd or remarkable passages—I immitations in the poets & prosewriters which I read & I have inserted some likenesses [?] ...
Songs of Eretz: Review of House or Window Flies by John Clare by Steven Wittenberg Gordon, MD (2013/02/10 10:09)
House or Window Flies by the English poet John Clare (b. 1793) was offered by Poets.org's Poem-A-Day on February 10, 2013. The poet here treads the fine line between prose poem and just plain prose in the somewhat ...
Essays and Diversions: John Clare by Richard Gibbs (2013/02/03 10:57)
... the vaulted sky. These lines were written in the last period of John Clare's life, when, for twenty-two and a half years before his death at the age of 71, he was enclosed in the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum. ... He was for a time a highly praised poet with the same London publisher as Keats, but his rural background and lack of sophistication did not help him up the ladder of fame and his health and behaviour became unstable. His best known works tend to be ...
What is Life? by John Clare | Moving Poems by Dave (2013/01/25 10:00)
Inspired by New York City fall and John Clare's poem. This was my first time in the city and my first time shooting with a Go Pro only. Made 100% with a Go Pro Hero 3 Black Edition. Poem: What is Life by John Clare.
Revision Notes- The Badger by John Clare | Revision for NI by roryocox (2013/01/24 16:46)
The Badger by John Clare. Clare repeated words and phrases which may be contributed by him being known as the peasant's poet. “Drive the rebels”. This is an example of rhyming couplets and this limited range of ...
Long Quân: Analysis of John Clare's Love Poem "First Love" by longquankute (2013/01/16 21:05)
Bigone - "Very first Love" was actually written by John Clare, 1793-1864, about his real very first love,Mary Joyce, whom he came across whenever he was just 10 years past times. She was actually the girl of the rich farmer ...
poetry - Meter in Clare's "I am" - English Language & Usage Stack ... by dirk5959 (2013/01/14 19:51)
And the reason why he does this is tied to the symbolism in this poem, not just the words. For John Clare's poem, you can keep five feet in this line if you break it pyrrhus, spondee, trochee, iamb, iamb, and if this is for a class, I suspect this ...
I prefer reading: Sunday Poetry - John Clare by lyn (2013/01/12 08:25)
Another poem by John Clare this week. After over a week of hot days & no rain in sight, I'm looking for a little wish fulfillment. A cool early Spring day in the English countryside is just what I need to imagine during a Melbourne ...
I prefer reading: Sunday Poetry - John Clare by lyn (2013/01/05 08:54)
Love, meet me in the green glen, / Beside the tall elm-tree, / Where the sweetbriar smells so sweet agen; / There come with me. / Meet me in the green glen. / Meet me at the sunset / Down in the green glen, / Where we've ...
John Clare Weblog: Beautifull poetry I bow to thee by DEI-EX (2013/01/04 12:23)
From Helpston in rural Northamptonshire, John Clare was born in 1793. He is now regarded as the most important poet of the natural world from Britain. He wrote many poems, essays, journals and letters about love, sex, ...
John Clare: 'An Invite, to Eternity' | Colin Hambrook's art and poetry ... by knitting-time (2012/12/30 02:58)
Wilt thou go with me, sweet maid, / Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me / Through the valley-depths of shade, / Of night and dark obscurity; / Where the path has lost its way, / Where the sun forgets the day, / Where there's nor life ...
POETRY: Lord, Hear My Prayer, by John Clare | The Value of ... by thevalueofsparrows (2012/12/27 18:15)
Lord, hear my prayer when trouble glooms, / Let sorrow find a way, / And when the day of trouble comes, / Turn not thy face away: / My bones like hearthstones burn away, / My life like vapoury smoke decays. / My heart is ...
My Descent into Descent: John Clare's Christmas and the Sandersons by Sherry (2012/12/19 19:47)
It is located at 18 Woodgate, a short distance down the street from 12 Woodgate, the “John Clare Cottage”, where the poet John Clare lived in the early 1800's. It has a similar look to the Royal Oak Cottage, and perhaps a ...
[poem] I be! | in answer to John Clare | The End Of All Crossroads by nihas (2012/11/23 20:45)
By John Clare / I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; / My friends forsake me like a memory lost: / I am the self-consumer of my woes— / They rise and vanish in oblivious host, / Like shadows in love's frenzied stifled ...
First Love by John Clare - Famous Love Poems by romantic-poetry-by-famous-poets (2012/11/13 19:11)
Read John Clare's First Love poem here.
The Ape Philosophy: What is Life by John Clare by Sir Evil Monkey (2012/10/11 18:21)
What is Life by John Clare. “What is life?” is a poem by John Clare in the 19th century which consists of one sestet, one octave, and two quintets. It's a very melodious and rhythmical poem in which the Clare asks a series of ...
Clare play turns ideas about Helpston poet on their head - Theatre ... by unknown (2012/09/04 08:48)
It is well known that at times in his life 19th century Helpston poet John Clare was troubled by mental health issues, and spent many of his later years in an asylum.
Fonts and Fiction: The Poet, John Clare by ange (2012/08/30 07:09)
One of my favourite books is The Poet's Wife by local author, Judith Allnatt. Last year I attended a workshop which Judith held at my writing group and I was also one of a group which visited Helpston, John Clare's birth place.
'Revisiting the Helpston grave of John Clare' by Charles Causley by Roger in Ottery (2012/08/30 00:04)
[It is very rare for me to post anything but poems by John Clare to this weblog... but in Charles Causley we encounter a poet with a love of Clare and his work. Here is his poem 'Revisiting the Helpston grave of John Clare '] ...
Poet in Mind: John Clare | Taps and Ratamacues by John S (2012/07/19 02:00)
John Clare*, the Northamptonshire peasant poet was born on July 13, 1793. This is remarkable, because last Friday (July 13th), I was considering a Poet in Mind post, and thought of John Clare, whom I had discovered quite ...
Why We Should Drink to John Clare | READ | Research in English at ... by readdurham (2012/07/17 10:54)
It was the poet John Clare's (1793-1864) 219th birthday last Friday. George Monbiot marked the occasion in a column for The Guardian, drawing attention to Clare's thrillingly immediate engagement with the natural world and ...
A Change in the Wind: John Clare: Peasant poet (of environmental ... by Kit Stolz (2012/07/13 11:31)
Surely one of the most interesting of all environmental columnists is George Monbiot of The Guardian, who this week penned a luminous tribute to the great "peasant poet" John Claire. Clare found great success in his youth, ...
The Madness of John Clare « The Dish by Andrew Sullivan (2012/07/13 11:22)
Today marks the birthday of the British poet John Clare (born in 1793), whose work the Dish recently featured. It turns out he led quite the varied life, from living with gypsies to being placed in an asylum, all in the midst of the ...
John Clare | jimgrozier by Jim Grozier (2012/07/12 23:37)
Today, as George Monbiot reminded us in Tuesday's Guardian, is the anniversary of the birth of the poet John Clare. I thought I ought to honour that occasion by posting one of his poems, even though I am not very familiar ...
John Clare – a poet out of his time « quintessentialruminations by Philip Lee (2012/07/12 21:05)
Today is the birthday of one of England's greatest rural poets. Forget William Wordsworth (for the time being, at least) and remember John Clare, who “found the poems in the fields, And only wrote them down.” The son of ...
I prefer reading: Sunday Poetry - John Clare by lyn (2012/03/31 18:04)
This lovely poem, called First Love, seems to exemplify the sadness & melancholy of John Clare's poetry for me. Clare (picture from here) was parted from his first love, Mary, but often harked back to this period of his life when ...
John Clare - Identity and Place pt1 | The English Faculty by Administrator (2011/11/03 13:27)
This podcast examines the significance of place to the poet John Clare, and argues that he was interested in how being out of place develops and changes the self. It focuses particularly on 'The Flitting', showing how initially the poem ...
Brainwashed - Peter Lamborn Wilson, "Ec(o)logues" by Justin Patrick (2011/10/29 19:00)
The book starts with a nod to British peasant poet John Clare, who in 1827 wrote a cycle of poems titled A Shepards' Calendar. (John Clare was also on influence on the Current 93 album Earth Covers Earth.) Peter gives us ...
National Poetry Day – Light a Candle for John Clare - The University ... by Web Team (2011/09/28 08:23)
A tribute to John Clare on National Poetry Day – guest speakers will outline his life and times. Date: Thursday 6 October 2011 at 7pm. Venue: In front of All Saints Church Northampton by the Portico where John Clare sat and ...
Poem of the week 32.2011 – John Clare – Autumn | notboxed by admin (2011/08/29 02:06)
Autumn comes laden with her ripened load / Of fruitage and so scatters them abroad / That each fern-smothered heath and mole-hill waste / Are black with bramble berries—where in haste / The chubby urchins from the village ...
“Untroubling and untroubled”: Notes on a poem by John Clare | The ... by Mark (2011/08/05 02:47)
It's by John Clare, of course, born into poverty in 1793 in Helpstone, a village named as if somehow for the purpose of bringing about, in the ripeness of time, such a poet as him. Clare's father was on parish relief, and his twin ...
Tuesday Poem: Clock-O'-Clay, by John Clare - Still Standing on her ... by Catherine (2011/07/18 02:50)
In the cowslip pips I lie, / Hidden from the buzzing fly, / While green grass beneath me lies, / Pearled with dew like fishes' eyes, / Here I lie, a clock-o'-clay, / Waiting for the time o' day. / While the forest quakes surprise, / And the ...
I prefer reading: Sunday poetry - John Clare by lyn (2011/05/14 14:39)
Penny left a comment on last week's Sunday Poetry post recommending this poem by John Clare (portrait from here). I'm up to the Romantic poets in my anthology but the book I'm taking my Sunday Poetry from (A Book of ...
The Horns of Verse (a guest post by John Clare) | Always Under ... by alwaysunderrevision (2011/04/13 09:00)
Known as the Peasant Poet of Northamptonshire, John Clare (1793-1864) is the author of Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820) and The Rural Muse (1835), among other works. Largely unschooled, he served ...
poetandgeek.com: John Clare tweet poetry by Poetandgeek.com (2011/04/11 09:38)
A WEEDLING wild, on lonely lea, / My evening rambles chanc'd to see; / And much the weedling tempted me / To crop its tender flower: / Expos'd to wind and heavy rain, / Its head bow'd lowly on the plain; / And silently it ...
Wild and Neglected Like Me: John Clare the Peasant Poet - Justseeds by Molly Fair (2011/02/25 06:17)
Recently, Molly and I made a print based on a line from John Clare's poetry: a love poem written to a weed. The poem offers some interesting insights into commoning as a way of life, and in particular how unused, unnoticed, ...
133. First Love: John Clare | Middle School Poetry 180 by tomdarling (2011/02/17 02:26)
I ne'er was struck before that hour / With love so sudden and so sweet. / Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower / And stole my heart away complete. / My face turned pale, a deadly pale. / My legs refused to walk away, ...
Analysis of First Love by John Clare - Term Papers - Fishtank by unknown (2011/02/12 01:00)
Analysis of First Love by John Clare. By fishtank, February 2011 | 4 Pages (983 Words) | 9021 Views. |. 1 rating(s). Report. |. This is a Premium essay. Sign Up to access full essay · Tweet. First love is a poem, which encapsulates the ...
John Clare, Poet of Rural England | Jane Austen's World by Vic (2010/12/06 21:01)
John Clare was at first educated at a dame school in his native village between 1798 and 1800. Then he went to Glinton school in the next village. John Clare, Poet. He had a need to write poetry and his first poems were ...
Mr. Digressius: A Poem for the Season from John Clare by Mr. Philoctetes Digressius aka le mckenna (2010/11/12 03:14)
I think John Clare is one of the most underrated poets of all time. Enjoy. "Autumn" The thistledown's flying, though the winds are all still, On the green grass now lying, now mounting the hill, The spring from the fountain now ...
Is God Anonymous?: Secret Love: Stanza from John Clare Poem by Anonymous God-blogger (2010/09/15 05:57)
Secret Love: Stanza from John Clare Poem. ** I hid my love in field and town. Till e'en the breeze would knock me down; The bees seemed singing ballads o'er, The fly's bass turned a lion's roar; And even silence found a ...
What I'm Reading: John Clare, Emily Dickinson | The Art of Reading by mbolit (2010/08/05 20:28)
John Clare was a 19th-century English poet, whose work I discovered in a used bookstore several years ago. He didn't come up in either of my British Literature survey courses in college, but I think he's an excellent poet.
In Memory of John Clare, Fen Poet - The Great Returning by Leona Graham (2010/05/18 09:16)
In Memory of John Clare, Fen Poet By Leona Graham On watching David Dimbleby's A Picture of Britain: The Flatlands April/May 2010 I've hardly read you But all round me I read through you Through your despair and joy I.
The peasent poet -John Clare | Winstonsdad's Blog by winstonsdad (2010/04/10 13:04)
Is probably the greatest nature poet that lived ,he was born to a farm labourer in Northamptonshire in 1793 ,he wrote poems in his local dialect about the natural world that surrounded him .sell his earliest poems to save his ...
John Clare 1793 – 1864 | Sue Young Histories by Sue (2010/02/11 04:57)
John Clare 1793 – 1864 was an English poet,. John Clare was a ... Drury sent Clare's poetry to his cousin John Taylor of the publishing firm of Taylor & Hessey, who had published the work of John Keats. Taylor published ...
John Clare, The Poor People's Poet | Workers' Liberty by dalcassian (2010/01/24 07:11)
John Clare was born 1793 in Helpstone, a small village once part of Northamptonshire, now Cambridgeshire. Known as the Peasant Poet he was also, marginally, one of the group of artists who became known as the ...
davesdistrictblog: John Clare: eco-poetry and the re-enchantment of ... by Dave Perry (2009/07/16 02:31)
When I first met you I knew I had come at last home, / Home after wandering, home after long puzzled searching, / Home after long being wind-borne, wave-tossed, night-caught, / Long being lost; / And being with you as ...
John Clare - environmental poet - LIS News for Development and ... by Paul Stewart (2009/07/10 03:00)
To listen to an article on the BBC Today Programme (9th June 2009) about the poet, John Clare, and the opening of his cottage in Cambridgeshire to the public, follow this link: ...
Poem of the Week: “Written in Northampton County Asylum” by John ... by Anne McCarthy (2009/01/19 16:42)
I am! yet what I am who cares, or knows? / My friends forsake me like a memory lost. / I am the self-consumer of my woes; / They rise and vanish, an oblivious host, / Shadows of life, whose very soul is lost, / And yet I am–I ...
LibriVox » Short Poetry Collection 049 by unknown (2007/10/15 00:00)
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 049: a collection of 20 public-domain poems. spc049 Thumbnail ... In October by John Burroughs – 00:03:17. Source: E-text ... The Instinct of Hope by John Clare – 00:01:24. Source: E-text ...
Inward Bound Poetry: 241. I Am - John Clare by Bookgleaner (2006/10/24 15:43)
John Clare - I Am (1793-1864) I am––yet what I am, none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes–– They rise and vanish in oblivion's host, Like shadows in love, frenzied ...
The Wondering Minstrels: Hesperus -- John Clare by Sitaram (2006/04/10 05:57)
I would like to suggest John Clare's poem "Hesperus". Minstrels has already run his most famous poem "I Am", but Clare wrote many other poems which are equally good. I first heard about Clare on a radio program on BBC ...
Sony Bono, Mickey Mouse and John Clare — Crooked Timber by unknown (2006/01/29 13:43)
Sony Bono, Mickey Mouse and John Clare. by Chris Bertram on January 29, 2006. I watched Peter Ackroyd's BBC programme on the Romantic poets yesterday and was rather taken with the account of John Clare. So I was googling around ...
Life and Remains of John Clare, the "Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" by unknown (2005/10/28 04:14)
Project Gutenberg Presents. Life and Remains of John Clare, the "Northamptonshire Peasant Poet". by John Clare. edited by J. L. Cherry · Project Gutenberg Release #9156 (October 2005) Select author names above for additional ...
Randall Couch reads “The Yellowhammer” by John Clare by admin (2005/06/28 22:00)
June 29th, 2005. In this installment, Randall Couch reads “The Yellowhammer” by John Clare. Couch received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship in poetry in 2000 and an MFA from Warren Wilson College in 2003. He teaches at ...

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Durban Boardwalk - May 21, 2013 - Independent Online (2013/05/21 05:46)
Durban Boardwalk - May 21, 2013Independent OnlineInspired by Dr Mongane Wally Serote's most recent poetry collections and its provocative invitation to engage memory, history and belonging, the Flatfoot Dance Company presents History is a Home Address. Six dancers from Flatfoot sing, ... at 6.30pm ...
Patch Reads: 2013 Summer Reading List - Patch.com (2013/05/21 02:58)
Patch Reads: 2013 Summer Reading ListPatch.comBy Clare Vanderpool. For Ages 9 and up. Jack is adrift after his mother dies, so his dad, just back from WWII, enrolls him in a boarding school in Maine. There he befriends Early Auden, a loner who rarely attends classes and whose brother, a soldier ...and more »
On this day: John Smith funeral | Hamburger Hill - Scotsman (2013/05/19 16:10)
ScotsmanOn this day: John Smith funeral | Hamburger HillScotsman... War fighter Spitfire; 1920 Betty Driver MBE, actress (Coronation Street). Deaths: 1506 Christopher Columbus, navigator and discoverer of the New World; 1864 John Clare, peasant poet (died in lunatic asylum); 1975 Dame Barbara Hepworth, sculptor.
Classical review: Wozzack, The Helmand years - The Independent (2013/05/18 13:36)
The IndependentClassical review: Wozzack, The Helmand yearsThe IndependentWozzeck is an example of ENO at its provocative best, with proper thought given to every role, from Clare Presland's brittle, doll-like Margret to Harry Polden's numbed child, stepping over the corpses of his parents, cocaine-stuffed dinosaur in his ...
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and Why be Happy When ... - The Guardian (2013/05/18 02:06)
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and Why be Happy When ...The GuardianAnd then that Yeats poem The Cloth of Heaven jumps at me. And then that moment Leonard Woolf writes about, after ... You can't live wild like John Clare or cheaply like Henry Miller in a 5th rate hotel. I have never romanticised poverty, no-one who has ...
Reflections- The danger of over-communicating - Clare County Review (2013/05/17 06:54)
Reflections- The danger of over-communicatingClare County ReviewPoets and pastors capitalize on this by using their pens and preaching to give love a voice, whether about matters romantic or religious. And a never ... “My talent is to speak my mind,” a woman once said to John Wesley, the father of the Methodist church.
Could film at last bring fame to 80s hellraiser Robert Pereno? - Ham&High (2013/05/17 06:54)
Ham&HighCould film at last bring fame to 80s hellraiser Robert Pereno?Ham&HighPereno is undoubtedly a multifaceted enigma, though, one moment seeming a Bill Nighy-esque caricature, the next a grizzled professor blaring John Clare from memory. All corners of his persona are so extreme that some even assume he is a fictitious ...
Laureate's acclaim for local poetry - Blackpool Gazette (2013/05/17 04:36)
Blackpool GazetteLaureate's acclaim for local poetryBlackpool GazetteHis latest book The Gypsy and Poet (a sequence of sonnets inspired by poet John Clare's friendship with a Romany) will be published in August. Morley says homegrown poets “derive clout, gumption and nous from a local habitation and a name. Sculpted is ...
The African writer whose pen had a conscience - The Guardian Nigeria (2013/05/16 23:25)
The African writer whose pen had a conscienceThe Guardian NigeriaThe soul lies buried in the ink that writes,” - John Clare ... The headline indicated that Prof Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, the foremost Nigerian poet, writer, author, essayist and social commentator, had passed on the previous Thursday. Nelson Mandela ...
Theater Listings for May 17-23 - New York Times (2013/05/16 14:53)
New York TimesTheater Listings for May 17-23New York TimesStaged last fall at Manhattan Theater Club's Studio at Stage II, the show returns with most of its original cast (John Ellison Conlee, Will Swenson and Rebecca Naomi Jones) and an addition: Caissie Levy, who is taking over for Karen Olivo. Union Square ...
Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Jacobean Incest Melodrama - LA Weekly (blog) (2013/05/16 12:40)
LA Weekly (blog)Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Jacobean Incest MelodramaLA Weekly (blog)Directed by Phylicia Rashad, beautifully framed by John Iacovelli's atmospheric set, with its dark orange and gold hues and misty horizon, the production captures the warmth and passion of a subculture still richly imbued with the magic and myth of its ...
Theater - New York Times (2013/05/16 10:46)
New York TimesTheaterNew York TimesThere are probably many more Fringe festivals out there than you suspected, and this one is heading into its eighth summer of eclectic performances that include theater, dance, puppetry, improvisation, clowning, hip-hop, poetry, mime and who knows what ...and more »
Your Students, Your Schools -- West Des Moines and Waukee - DesMoinesRegister.com (2013/05/16 02:24)
Your Students, Your Schools -- West Des Moines and WaukeeDesMoinesRegister.com... Janse Barkley, Brock Benda, Matthew Bonner, David Carmody, Elizabeth Colloton, Charlotte DeAngelis, Jack Edwards, Tessa Erzen, Nash Fisher, Nicholas Flanagan, Sally Gaskell, Tyson Guiterrez, Ashley Hall, Jack Harrington, John Haus, Joseph Hrbutz ...and more »
The lure of the Summer Isles - Highland News (2013/05/15 18:12)
The lure of the Summer IslesHighland NewsWhen I went to the superb RSPB hide at Nigg Bay recently I was hoping for a skylark but the weather was so foul one did not put in an appearance. Skylarks always remind me of the lines by the poet John Clare who wrote: Right happy bird so full of mirth ...
What's On - May 14, 2013 - Blackpool Gazette (2013/05/14 03:48)
Blackpool GazetteWhat's On - May 14, 2013Blackpool GazetteFurther info please contact Paul 07981 312183 or Clare 07870 577374 or www.guardianconcertband.co.uk. ... With John Peate (keyboards) and Dave Miller (drums). Cleveleys Mens Club .... CLEVELEYS WRITERS SHORT STORY AND POETS MEETING.and more »
Michael Portillo and Germaine Greer to talk at John Clare festival - Rutland Times (2013/05/13 09:08)
Michael Portillo and Germaine Greer to talk at John Clare festivalRutland TimesThe event, We Love Words, has been organised, for the second year running by John Clare Trust in honour of the Helpston poet and will be held in various venues across the city and surrounding area from September 20-28. Chief executive of the trust Sara ...and more »
Society daily 13.05.13 - The Guardian (blog) (2013/05/13 04:20)
The Guardian (blog)Society daily 13.05.13The Guardian (blog)At the end of the event, he writes, he will be promoting Twitter project #FinalTweets, which is inviting people to tweet what their final last words would be, "be they pithy, poetic, poignant or prophetic". The Dying Matters Coalition, plans to publish ...
Playwrights Theatre announces Young Playwrights Contest winners - Independent Press - NJ.com (2013/05/12 12:42)
Playwrights Theatre announces Young Playwrights Contest winnersIndependent Press - NJ.comThe NJ Young Playwrights Contest and Festival is one of the most enduring programs of its kind in the country,” said Playwrights Theatre Artistic Director John Pietrowski. “These writers are joining ... “Premiere Stages is proud to continue to foster ...and more »
Area students are making the grade - The Mercury (2013/05/11 21:28)
Area students are making the gradeThe MercuryClare Camilleri, daughter of John and Deirdre Camilleri, attends Pope John Paul II High School. She is yearbook editor and treasurer of the ... As a writer, she read a poem she wrote to the members of the Chapter. She is involved in numerous activities ...
Teenage Tweetland - Publishers Weekly (2013/05/11 11:52)
Teenage TweetlandPublishers Weekly“Sticking to the 140-word limit—it's like poetry,” says Perkins. And sometimes, it's lucrative poetry: she tweeted an offer of five free Skype visits across ... book to photos of nail art and of cakes they bake and decorate in honor favorite books ...and more »
Touring play about poet John Clare to stop in Wetheringsett - Diss Express (2013/05/10 23:51)
Touring play about poet John Clare to stop in WetheringsettDiss ExpressEastern Angles will be visiting Wetheringsett Village Hall tonight at 7.30pm as part of its tour of The Long Life and Great Good Fortune of John Clare. The play explores the facts and myths about the poet. Call 01449 766670 for more. Email to a friend ...
Events in Westchester - New York Times (2013/05/10 17:27)
Events in WestchesterNew York TimesPOUGHKEEPSIE Hip Hop Theater, poetry, art, music and dance. May 16 at 7 p.m. $6. Bardavon Opera House, 35 Market Street. bardavon.org; .... Axial Theater at St. John's Church, 8 Sunnyside Avenue. (914) 962-8828; axialtheatre.org. STONY POINT “Class ...
Muscovy by Matthew Francis – review - The Guardian (2013/05/10 16:12)
The GuardianMuscovy by Matthew Francis – reviewThe GuardianThree and a half centuries later, the first benefit to humanity at large of the whole affair is the inspiration it has provided to Matthew Francis for the title poem of his fourth collection, Muscovy. Francis's Marvell is less interested in diplomacy ...
Calendar of Events for May 2013 - Conway Daily Sun (2013/05/10 14:20)
Calendar of Events for May 2013Conway Daily SunThe Friends of the Freedom Public Library will be hosting John Cooley, senior biologist for the Loon Preservation Committee (LPC), at 6:30 p.m. at the Freedom Town Hall. Cooley will present: "The Common Loon ..... They welcome two special guests: Clare ...
Tate Britain's killer rehang could make it an essential space – the week in art - The Guardian (2013/05/10 13:00)
The GuardianTate Britain's killer rehang could make it an essential space – the week in artThe GuardianImage of the week. Paul McCarthy Every dog has its day … Paul McCarthy's giant Balloon Dog has been making mischief in New York. Photograph: John Berens/Frieze ... That "the last beat poet", who was also Andy Warhol's muse and buttock model, has ...
Women writers come out tops on Granta's list - Mail & Guardian Online (2013/05/10 10:44)
Women writers come out tops on Granta's listMail & Guardian OnlineNed Beauman's inclusion will not surprise fans of the precociously playful, genre-bending author of The Teleportation Accident; and Adam Foulds has impressed readers with novels including A Quickening Maze, about the poet John Clare. 'Fresh and bold' ...and more »
Weekly Milwaukee Events Calendar - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2013/05/09 17:36)
Weekly Milwaukee Events CalendarMilwaukee Journal SentinelCounty Clare Pub: Dick Eliot, 5:30-9 p.m. May 12, 1234 N. Astor St. Historic Red Mill: Sharon Schmidt, Jeff Stoll and Joe Zarcone, 6-9 p.m. May 15, .... Pitch's Baby Grand: Jim William Mooney, 8:30 p.m. May 10, John Hefter, 8:30 p.m. May 11, 11320 W ...
Theater to See This Week, Including a Riveting Police Story - LA Weekly (blog) (2013/05/09 16:09)
LA Weekly (blog)Theater to See This Week, Including a Riveting Police StoryLA Weekly (blog)Neil LaBute, sadly, does not, and his 1929 Long Island setting adds little to the story of dangerous liaisons between upper-class Julie (Lily Rabe) and her father's valet John, (Logan Marshall-Green), who is simultaneously engaged to Kristine (Laura ...and more »
Theater Listings for May 10-16 - New York Times (2013/05/09 15:11)
New York TimesTheater Listings for May 10-16New York Times'The Master Builder' (previews start on Sunday; opens on May 21) Grandiosity seems to come easy to John Turturro, who has played the Brechtian dictator Arturo Ui, Howard Cosell and “the Jesus.” (That's Jesus Quintana, in “The Big Lebowski.”) He and the ...and more »
Arts head: Sara Blair-Manning, the John Clare Trust and Cottage - The Guardian (blog) (2013/05/07 03:47)
The Guardian (blog)Arts head: Sara Blair-Manning, the John Clare Trust and CottageThe Guardian (blog)The John Clare Trust was formed in 2005 with the goal of obtaining Clare Cottage (the birthplace and family home of John Clare, the renowned Victorian 'peasant' poet) and transforming it into a site of historical, cultural and educational importance ...
One-off unique event for Feis Ile – 140 musicians in new work on Battle of ... - For Argyll (2013/05/07 02:20)
For ArgyllOne-off unique event for Feis Ile – 140 musicians in new work on Battle of ...For ArgyllOn 30th May, in Islay's Bowmore Hall, there will be two performances by 140 island musicians of a new Gaelic music piece composed by the renowned Gaelic traditional musician, Clare Jordan, inspired by Islay bard, William Livingstone's poem on the ...
Eastern Angles' new play - Diss Express (2013/05/05 03:57)
Eastern Angles' new playDiss ExpressEastern Angles will be performing The Long Life and Great Good Fortune of John Clare at Bressingham Village Hall on Tuesday. The show, which draws on the life of the 19th century labourer and poet, will start at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £8 available from ...
Clare Cottage on Countryfile - Peterborough Telegraph (2013/05/03 01:35)
Peterborough TelegraphClare Cottage on CountryfilePeterborough TelegraphA popular BBC1 show will focus on Peterborough this weekend. Countryfile will feature Helpston's John Clare Cottage on it's Sunday night slot at 7pm. Presenter John Craven will look at the impact poet John Clare had on the area. Email to a friend ...
Interview: director Bernardo Bertolucci - gulfnews.com (2013/05/02 10:34)
Interview: director Bernardo Bertoluccigulfnews.com“My wife [the screenwriter, Clare Peploe] and I went round for dinner and there he was in a wheelchair, surrounded by flowers.” Nearly 40 years on and it's Bertolucci who's sitting in a wheelchair surrounded by flowers. It was his 73rd birthday two ...
Profile: Sir Christopher Ball - The Oxford Times (2013/05/02 08:22)
Profile: Sir Christopher BallThe Oxford TimesCoincidentally, Wendy was about to arrive in Oxford to do an external University of London language degree through St Clare's. They went on to have two children, before ... He pointed out: “The heart unit at the John Radcliffe saved my life, or gave me ...
To Watch For In 2013: Part 3 - Dish Magazine Interviews Joaquin Phoenix (2013/05/01 16:32)
Dish Magazine Interviews Joaquin PhoenixTo Watch For In 2013: Part 3Dish Magazine Interviews Joaquin PhoenixBefore Home dropped April 29, Rudimental released five - yes, five - singles that blended their funky, bass-heavy production style with smooth vocals from Alex Clare, John Newman, Syron, MNEK and Ella Eyre. Their album also includes two songs featuring ...
John Clare Cottage will feature on BBC One's Countryfile - Rutland and Stamford Mercury (2013/05/01 11:01)
John Clare Cottage will feature on BBC One's CountryfileRutland and Stamford MercuryThe home of a famous poet will be featured on BBC programme Countryfile on Sunday. John Clare Cottage in Helpston, the childhood home of one of the 19th century's greatest English poets John Clare, will feature in the programme on BBC One at 7pm.
See the best art in May - Country Life (2013/05/01 08:47)
See the best art in MayCountry LifeMarking the Line: Ceramics and Architecture - modern works of art by ceramicists Nicholas Rena, Carina Ciscato, Clare Twomey and Christie Brown juxtaposed with the unique design and collections of Sir John Soane at Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln's ...
Trees Are Heroes - Santa Clara Weekly (2013/05/01 02:18)
Santa Clara WeeklyTrees Are HeroesSanta Clara WeeklyHundreds of young Santa Clara children celebrated trees in song, poetry, and laughter at Santa Clara's Arbor Day and Earth Day Celebration at the tree-ringed Triton Museum Gardens April 26. Those old enough to count ... Kindergartners and first from ...and more »
Q&A With Sandy Asirvatham - Baltimore Magazine (2013/04/30 13:22)
Q&A With Sandy AsirvathamBaltimore MagazineWe hope that pairing our incredible local musicians with this perennial, worldwide hit album will help put this city on the global cultural map for something other than David Simon's crime dramas and John Waters' campy flicks (although of course we ...and more »
Tales of war to bring peace - Central Western Daily (2013/04/29 11:13)
Tales of war to bring peaceCentral Western DailyBy CLARE COLLEY. April 30, 2013, 4 a.m.. SHARING STORIES: Kokoda Track veteran Captain Bede Tongs (right) signed a copy of his poetry book for the Orange Library when he met Orange mayor John Davis. Photo: LUKE SCHUYLER 0429lsbede ...
Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths – review - The Guardian (2013/04/28 01:02)
The GuardianKith: The Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths – reviewThe GuardianFor Griffiths, the poet who best represented the move from a supposedly free-roaming England to one of patchworked agricultural exclusion was John Clare: "The Enclosures spiked the nest of Clare's psyche," she writes. "Where moss and feathers had been, ...
Belper Arts Festival - full listings - Belper News (2013/04/27 01:28)
Belper NewsBelper Arts Festival - full listingsBelper NewsMay 18 Lit: Open Mike Poetry, Fresh Ground, 7pm, pay what you think. Come along and enjoy your time behind the microphone ... 2 Lancaster Rise (off Crich Lane), DE56 1HF: Saturday and Sunday only, WC available, Margaret Rose (contemporary portraits ...
President Driscoll to be inaugurated today - Indiana University The Penn Online (2013/04/26 08:52)
President Driscoll to be inaugurated todayIndiana University The Penn OnlineStudent Government Association President Taylor Billman (senior, management) will present a framed copy of “The Last Wall,” a poem by IUP student Clare Welsh (senior, English). The poem will be recited by John Vandermark (senior, theater). “I think it ...and more »
Sussex Heritage: 'Paul Nash - The Clare Neilson Gift' An exhibition at Pallant ... - West Sussex Gazette (2013/04/26 07:24)
West Sussex GazetteSussex Heritage: 'Paul Nash - The Clare Neilson Gift' An exhibition at Pallant ...West Sussex GazetteWith this in mind, you could forgive John Piper for including one of Nash's paintings in his 1943 book 'British Romantic Artists'. Nash was less than pleased, though. It was the word 'romantic' which bothered him and he referred, instead, to the 'poetic'.and more »
Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Riveting Drama About Holocaust ... - LA Weekly (blog) (2013/04/26 05:10)
LA Weekly (blog)Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Riveting Drama About Holocaust ...LA Weekly (blog)Quickly establishing the besotted state of the young betrothed lovers with adoring banter, Ruhl's dialogue is full of wistful and playful exchanges while permitting the occasional poetic flourish. Jeanine A. Ringer's dreamy .... When the tape is leaked ...and more »
Carrick-on-Shannon Community News - Leitrim Observer (2013/04/26 04:35)
Carrick-on-Shannon Community NewsLeitrim ObserverCongratulations to our raffle winners, Joe Flynn, St Mary's Close, Carrick and Tom Guckian, Gowel on winning our 2 superb novelty cakes, baked and donated by Fiona Martin and Clare Noone. All roads lead to Derry this weekend where the main ...
Norwich playwright remembers peasant poet - Norwich Evening News (2013/04/26 03:03)
Norwich Evening NewsNorwich playwright remembers peasant poetNorwich Evening NewsHe's a bit of an enigma is John Clare, the peasant poet. Word has come down the years that he had a tough time of it, that everybody ripped him off and that he was finally locked away in an asylum by the evil Doctor Skrimshire. Not so, says Tony Ramsay ...
Swansea exults in high-flying Swans - Reuters UK (2013/04/25 20:27)
Swansea exults in high-flying SwansReuters UKCopper smelting succeeded ship building as the city's primary industry and the disparity between a bleak industrial centre and the attractions of Swansea Bay led poet Dylan Thomas to describe his birthplace as an "ugly, lovely town". Modern ... "One or ...and more »
Prints paired with poems at Gibbs - Courier-Gazette & Camden Herald (subscription) (2013/04/25 14:59)
Courier-Gazette & Camden Herald (subscription)Prints paired with poems at GibbsCourier-Gazette & Camden Herald (subscription)Some prints in the show are visual interpretations of favorite poems; and some poems were written by the poet to interpret a specific print. Poets included in the exhibit are John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Mary Oliver, May Swenson, Tomas ...
Poppies and prayers as the south-west remembers - Warrnambool Standard (2013/04/25 14:55)
Poppies and prayers as the south-west remembersWarrnambool StandardBy PETER COLLINS, EVERARD HIMMELREICH & CLARE QUIRK. April 26, 2013, 4 a.m. ... When Warrnambool RSL sub-branch president John Miles read the prayer written by his seven-year-old granddaughter Alyssa O'Bray it evoked spontaneous applause from a packed ...
Kennebec Journal Staff - Kennebec Journal (2013/04/24 21:20)
Kennebec Journal StaffKennebec JournalSculpture, photography, painting, watercolor, poetry, quilting, scrapbooking and basketry. Participating artists are: Karen Jordan Allen, Wilbur ... For more information, call 512-4679 or email clare@monkitree.com. HALLOWELL. Play, Harlow Gallery, 160 ...and more »
John Strausbaugh's 'The Village': All that's missing from vivid history book ... - Washington Post (2013/04/24 16:08)
John Strausbaugh's 'The Village': All that's missing from vivid history book ...Washington Postand “The Diamond Lens”) and the free-spirited poet Ada Clare, who defied convention by trumpeting the fact she was a single mother by having her calling card inscribed “Miss Ada Clare and Son.” Throughout his book Strausbaugh emphasizes the sexual ...
'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day' Movie: Jennifer ... - Moviefone (2013/04/24 15:39)
'Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day' Movie: Jennifer ...Moviefone... mind to the possibility that zombies aren't all walking corpses. On the Screen: Writer-director Jonathan Levine has transformed R's poetic and hilarious story into a cute and clever post-apocalyptic comedy Variety called a "broadly ...and more »
London Book And Poetry Events: 25 April-1 May - Londonist (2013/04/24 05:16)
London Book And Poetry Events: 25 April-1 MayLondonistIain Sinclair, Tom Chivers, Katy Darby and Clare Fisher give their takes on London at Toynbee Studios for Annexe's Words on Cities (7.30pm, £7). See John Hegley at the Keats Community Library in Hampstead (7.30pm, £5 / £3). Booker Prize 2012 longlisted ...
Nature notes: wrynecks - The Times (subscription) (2013/04/23 09:13)
The Times (subscription)Nature notes: wrynecksThe Times (subscription)It was known as “the cuckoo's mate” because it arrived at the same time as the cuckoo. Its main oddity is its ability to twist its head around and look like a snake. It nests in holes in trees, and a poem by John Clare describes how a female wryneck ...
Gauteng Boardwalk - April 23, 2013 - Independent Online (2013/04/23 05:34)
Gauteng Boardwalk - April 23, 2013Independent OnlineRace, by David Mamet, directed by Clare Mortimer, starring Hlomla Dandala and Michael Richard, until April 28, R80 to R100, bookings at Computicket. Opera: Jesus, musical with Heinz Winckler and Robbie Wessels, ... We Are the Champions, tribute to ...
What's On - April 23, 2013 - Blackpool Gazette (2013/04/23 03:26)
Blackpool GazetteWhat's On - April 23, 2013Blackpool GazetteFurther info please contact Paul 07981 312183 or Clare 07870 577374 or www.guardianconcertband.co.uk. ... With John Peate (keyboards) and Dave Miller (drums). Cleveleys Mens Club .... CLEVELEYS WRITERS SHORT STORY AND POETS MEETING.
Patrick Garland obituary - The Guardian (2013/04/23 03:11)
The GuardianPatrick Garland obituaryThe GuardianMuch of his work was informed by his love of literature, and the poetry of Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Philip Larkin and John Clare. In 1963 he formed Poetry International with Ted Hughes and Charles Osborne. Garland made his name with a 1967 ...and more »

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