Sorry, not much blogging going on here at the moment. And right now I have to get out of the house. I’ll do something tomorrow, but in the meantime you might like to check out these other very interesting things:
Meryl Pugh has a blog! A blog all about writing poetry, and being interested in things. Who knew. Not for nothing is it entitled Skulking in the Corners…
“At the heart of every galaxy is a black hole and at the heart of every black hole is a paradox; a point of infinite tininess and infinite gravity. They call it a singularity.
A handsome, white-haired academic makes infinity signs proliferate across his blackboard….”
Also, my town-twinned blog friend Meredith has started a new blog, far away in Australia, with a title from Emily Dickinson. (I thought I was being clever there, but when I opened the blog she had said so in her first sentence! “The title is from an Emily Dickinson poem. I’m sure you know it: Because I Could Not Stop for Death. I chose it because of how it expresses stasis & momentum tugging at each other.” Damn. Well, bookmark it anyway, because I know Meredith of old and she writes a good blog.)
Caleb Crain in the New York Times wrote a great piece about Keats’ speech – that is, how did he speak? Well worth reading this. And no, I haven’t seen the movie yet. Reach the article via Caleb’s entertaining blog, Steamboats Are Ruining Everything.
And also, Salt Publishing – as many of you may know – has consolidated its blogs into one big Salt blog, the cunningly named blog.saltpublishing.com. Well worth checking out for their special offers etc.
Last but not least, there’s my very own Text Pixels blog: for the fairy way of solving all your copywriting and PR problems. Back after a short absence with three posts in a row.
Worried you can’t read any of these links properly? Well, get some Readability!
And just don’t get me started on our little plagiarism kerfuffle. I’ve probably missed the boat on it but might try to say something tomorrow.
I know: crap.
2 Comments
November 10, 2009 at 5:38 pm
I love that Emily Dickinson poem – waved it in the air at Poets on Fire last week, and waved it at my students too!
November 10, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Dear Katy
Thanks for the lynx. Lots here for a poetry junkie to investigate. I actually think that plagiarism is an unacknowledged problem in British poetry. An unknown poet will send a manuscript to a poetry publisher. The in-house poets will paw over it like the Dead Sea scrolls and plunder all the best ideas. The unknown poet will remain unpublished and the in-house poets will be congratulated on their sparkling wit and originality. It has happened to me.
Best wishes from Simon