Polyolbion

Thursday, 1 October 2015

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A Sky Full Of Birds

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ABOUT ME

Matt Merritt: I live in Southam, England, and write (and read lots of) poetry. My prose memoir, A Sky Full Of Birds, is out now from Rider Books. My poetry collection, The Elephant Tests, is available from Nine Arches Press. My previous collection, hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica, was published by Nine Arches in 2010. My first collection, Troy Town, was published in March 2008 by Arrowhead Press, and my chapbook, Making The Most Of The Light, was published in 2005 by Happenstance Press.

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hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica

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PUBLISHED MARCH 1, 2008

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ABOUT THAT TITLE

Poly-Olbion was a vast poem describing the topography, traditions and history of England and Wales, written by Michael Drayton, a friend of Shakespeare. It ran to 15,000 lines of iambic hexameter, and he intended to extend it to include Scotland, but never got that far. Drayton didn't quite pass into obscurity, but if he's remembered now, it's generally for his much-anthologised sonnet, the wonderful "Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part". Anyway, I've always had a soft spot for Drayton, because he was born and raised about 15 miles from here in Polesworth (and because of that sonnet), and thought his now-ignored mega-poem might provide a good name for a blog that will range far and wide, wittering aimlessly and incessantly about whatever catches my eye. I promise not to write it in iambic hexameter, though.

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Click here to hear me read four poems - At Home; Show, Don't Tell; Spurn; and The Memory Of Water

MY POEMS ONLINE

1984 - Arrowhead
Birdsong - Peony Moon
Gabble Ratchet - Peony Moon
Happiness - Peony Moon
Himbeergeist - Umbrella
Hummadruz - Umbrella
Hutt River Province - Magma
Kilter - Litter
Knots - Boxcar Poetry Review
Leland's New Year Gift To The King, 1546 - Litter
Loons - Umbrella
Show, Don't Tell - Umbrella
Stanislav Petrov - Umbrella
Sub-Plot - Umbrella
Sunday Cricket, Eastwood - Blackbox Manifold
The Archaeologist - Blackbox Manifold
The Ends Of The Earth - Peony Moon
The Memory Of Water - Raw Light
The Quickening - Arrowhead
The sea at Ashby de la Zouch - Peony Moon
Treaty House - Brittle Star 19
Uchronie - Gists & Piths
Variations On A Theme By J A Baker - Gists & Piths
Vocabulary - Arrowhead
Wader Flock, Thornham Harbour - Peony Moon
Warning Against Using These Poems As A Map
With Immediate Effect - Arrowhead
Yellow Wagtails - Shit Creek Review

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andrewjshields

A “tattoo” in Thomas Hardy’s “The Trumpet-Major” and the annual Basel Tattoo - In Thomas Hardy's "The Trumpet-Major", the Royal Army's Dragoons show up in the village of Overcombe, and Anne Garland hears them break the silence of th...
18 hours ago
Rogue Strands

Poets for Movember at the MK Lit Fest - I'll be reading a poem tonight at this online event for the MK Lit Fest alongside a host of top-notch poets...
3 days ago
Weedon's World of Nature

Male and female Brambling, Ferry Meadows CP, Peterborough -
2 weeks ago
And Other Poems

The Family - Nadine El-Enany after Paula Rego I was by the window.When I tell the storyI am always the one by the window.I’m never the girl on the bed. I’m ...
3 months ago
Caroline Gill: Poetry and Other Writing

Little Black Book: Exhibition Cards for Imaginary Paintings - Mini anthology: 'Exhibition Cards for Imaginary Paintings' - see here These stylish Little Black Books arrived in the post today as my contributor c...
5 months ago
Raw Light

FAB Cover Reveal for A MOTHER'S HOPE FOR THE CORNISH GIRLS [my new warti... -
2 years ago
Deconstructive Wasteland

Same Difference publishes with Seren - *from the publisher:* This ambitious new collection from poet and critic Ben Wilkinson finds its author experimenting with poetic voice and the dram...
2 years ago
Magma Poetry » Blog

Magma 68 ‘Margins’ launches on July 28th - The launch of Magma 68 will be on Friday 28th July, 7pm at London Review Bookshop, 14-16 Bury Pl, Bloomsbury, London WC1A 2JL. Guest readers are Fleur Adco...
7 years ago
Carrie Etter

New site! - I'm now blogging at my new website, http://carrieetter.com. Come along?
8 years ago
BrandosHat

Quite Frankly: Peter Hughes (Reality Street, £12.50) - This is the full, complete edition of Peter Hughes' versions of Petrarch's Sonnets to Laura. There are 317 sonnets here; all of which in the original lang...
9 years ago
The Leicester Llama

A Ghost Story for Hallowe'en - (This works best if you imagine it being read aloud by someone like Derek Jacobi) Although the events I am about to relate took place nearly thirty years ...
10 years ago
Surroundings

Cutting Food Waste - Poetry prizes? Plagiarism? Verses off-by-heart in schools? I have missed out on all the contemporary hot literary topics, but I do have something to say...
11 years ago
Padhraig Nolan's Blog

Pivot Dublin : World Design Capital 2014 - Absoulutely excellent news from the Pivot Dublin camp. Dublin has just been announced as one of three cities worldwide shortlisted to become World Design...
13 years ago
David Caddy

Hidden Form: The Prose Poem in English Poetry - The view that prose poetry evolved through French poetry is a partial one. Such a perspective doubtless has its origins in the impact of that evolution ...
13 years ago
Tonguefire

Flittit! - Tonguefire has moved. I've been building a wee website on WordPress, incorporating this blog . Although it's not exactly finished, I deem it ready enough...
15 years ago
Bill of the Birds

My Blog's New URL! - Attention Bill of the Birds readers and RSS feeders! If you still have your browser pointed this (Blogger) version of Bill of the Birds, please consider c...
15 years ago
fretmarks

Hazel, Peacock, Little Shop -
15 years ago
Poetry in the Heartlands

Shindig! in Leicester - *Live poetry and open mic* Launch of Issue Two of *Under The Radar* magazine *Thursday, December 11th, 2008* Friends Meeting House, Queen’s Road, Leiceste...
15 years ago
One Night Stanzas

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a shearsman of sorts - Tony Frazer
Andrew Shields
Angela France
Bill of the Birds
Bird Watching's Blog
Brando's Hat - Steven Waling
Caroline at Coastcard
Catapult To Mars
Char Star - Charlotte Runcie
Dave Poems
David Caddy
Deconstructive Wasteland - Ben Wilkinson
Derby Cathedral Peregrine Project 2008
Didi Menendez
Emodulanda - Emily Tesh
Eyewear - Todd Swift
Fades In Slowly
Fretmarks
George Szirtes
Gists and Piths
Got Medieval
HappenStance
Intercapillary Space
Ivy Alvarez
Litterbug - Alan Baker
Lizzy Barefoot - Lizzy Dening
Magma
Michaela Gabriel
Mike's Birding and Digiscoping Blog
Musings
Naming The Beasts - Mark Burnhope
Nine Arches Press blog
One Last Wild / Enjambement - James Midgley
One Night Stanzas
Other Lives - Dan Wyke
Out Of The Woodwork - Brian Campbell
Peony Moon
PJ Nolan Online
Poet Hound
Poetry In The Heartlands
Poor Rude Lines - John Field
Quoi le Phoque - Chris Emslie
Raw Light - Jane Holland
Red Botinki - Gill McEvoy
Rogue Strands - Matthew Stewart
Sharon the Birdchick
Silliman's Blog
Soar Valley Birding
Sunny Dunny - Colin Will
Surroundings - Rob Mackenzie
That's So Pants - Noosa Lee
The Drunk Birder
The Leicester Llama
The Library Princess
The Storialist - Hannah Stephenson
Tonguefire - Andrew Philip
Tony Williams
Very Like A Whale
Via Negativa
Volatile Rune
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