Chris Mills

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• Poetry in June: James Joyce

  

  Happy Bloomsday!As promised my choice of verse today will mark today’s event (though Bloomsday seems to have begun to stretch out over a few days as though it... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poetry in June: On Marc Chagall

  

  The back story of today’s choice is that yesterday I heard from a friend about a major exhibition of Marc Chagall’s (1887-1985) work that has just moved to... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poetry in June: Faithless Phillis

  

  After yesterday’s nod towards the Yeats Day celebrations I have moved in a rather frivolous direction and have a short poem from a Restoration poet, Sir... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poetry in June: W.B.Yeats

  

  Having reached day thirteen of my poetry reading challenge, we come to another literary festival marking the life of a famous poet. I have therefore decided to... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poetry in June: R.L.Stevenson

  

  Yesterday I promised you one more poem about trains and here it is, right on time, from Robert Louis Stevenson’s (1850-1894) A Child’s Garden of Verses. Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poetry in June: Old Possum

  

  Now, you may have thought ‘Ah ha, this is going to be a poem about a cat’. And you would indeed be right but it is also a poem that continues the train theme... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poetry in June: Letters and Trains

  

  This poem by W.H. Auden (1907- 1973) combines two of my favourites things, letters and train journeys. It was written to accompany a General Post Office (GPO)... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poetry in June: Goblin Market

  

  This will be the last fairy or other-worldly related poem for a while at least (honest). It does however, not only tie in with the themes of enchantment on... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poetry in June: Marlowe

  

  Today’s featured poem comes from Christopher (Kit) Marlowe (1564-1593) to coincide with Marlowe Day which is celebrated in Canterbury by the Marlowe Society... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poetry in June : A Sonnet

  

  Sonnet (number XLIII) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poetry in June: More Fairies

  

  My choice today is in honour of the Trinity Dublin Shakespeare Festival which is being held this week from 3-8 June. I have been to a couple of events so far an... Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poetry in June: Grand Canal Dublin

  

  I shall say straightaway that you will have to overlook the mention of July in this poem when it is so clearly still June. The lovely sunny weather, so perfect... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poetry in June: Belloc’s Beasts

  

  A couple of likely lads…I know that this will be two children’s poems in a row, but I suppose that the excitement of having some sustained sunshine has addled m... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poetry in June: Gerbil Juggling

  

  This is a really silly verse to celebrate the June Bank Holiday (well, it’s a holiday if you happen to be in Ireland anyway). This is the title poem of a Brian... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poetry in June: Wendy Cope

  

  This poem by Wendy Cope (born 1945) is taken from Serious Concerns (Faber 1992) which was her second collection of verse, the first being Making Cocoa for... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poetry in June: Rose Fyleman

  

  A childhood favouriteFor the first of my ‘Poetry in June’ features I delved into the past – to the Children’s Treasury of Classics that I mentioned in the last... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Flaming June is Poetry Month on The Landing

  

  Flaming June, Frederick Leighton, 1895If you all cast your minds back to last December, you will recall that I set myself the daunting challenge of writing a... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• @Page_Break Meets: Sam Hawksmoor

  

  Today’s post is given over to one of my Twitter alter ego’s guest author spots, this time featuring YA author Sam Hawksmoor. Though to be fair, I have known... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• V.S.Naipaul’s Family Letters

  

  I’ve actually still not begun to read my latest Landing Eight novel due to being drawn to dipping into a volume of letters between V.S (Vido) Naipaul and his... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Page Breaks Meets: Bethany Dawson

  

  Today’s post contains a guest piece from debut author Bethany Dawson with whom I first made contact via good old Twitter. I was given a copy of her novel My... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE