Showing posts with label websites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label websites. Show all posts
Monday, 18 December 2017
More poetry website recommendations
Clarissa Aykroyd has posted her own recommendations for poetry and poetry in translation websites here – lots of good stuff to enjoy.
Thursday, 15 August 2013
From Watford Gap To Camelot
In the course of searching for some information on Alfred The Great (in the wake of Michael Wood's excellent King Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons on BBC4 last week), I rediscovered this rather splendid website. I say rediscovered, because I remember reading it in its entirety a good eight years ago.
It's great to dip in and out of, and sends you off down all sorts of historical and geographical byways, if you'll excuse the obvious cliche. It's also got me thinking about a long-distance walk I intended to do years ago, but which I've put off again and again.
I've also just noticed that this is Polyolbion's 1000th post (in what's going on for seven years now). From Watford Gap To Camelot is an oddly appropriate website to feature, then, following as it does in the footsteps of Michael Drayton.
It's great to dip in and out of, and sends you off down all sorts of historical and geographical byways, if you'll excuse the obvious cliche. It's also got me thinking about a long-distance walk I intended to do years ago, but which I've put off again and again.
I've also just noticed that this is Polyolbion's 1000th post (in what's going on for seven years now). From Watford Gap To Camelot is an oddly appropriate website to feature, then, following as it does in the footsteps of Michael Drayton.
Thursday, 15 April 2010
Dr Fulminare's Questionable Arts
Website recommendation of the day/week/month/whatever - the wonderful Dr Fulminare's Questionable Arts, brainchild of Fuselit editors Jon Stone and Kirsten Irving.
Still not had time to read nearly enough of it, but the reviews are particularly good. My favourite so far? The bit in the review of Matt Nunn's wonderful Sounds In The Grass where Jon Stone says: "it's clear that Nunn is building his work not around themes or a voice or structural skeletons, but a thread of sound that he hungrily follows, rather like a desert mole hunting its prey by vibrations in the sand".
Why can't all reviews be like this?
Still not had time to read nearly enough of it, but the reviews are particularly good. My favourite so far? The bit in the review of Matt Nunn's wonderful Sounds In The Grass where Jon Stone says: "it's clear that Nunn is building his work not around themes or a voice or structural skeletons, but a thread of sound that he hungrily follows, rather like a desert mole hunting its prey by vibrations in the sand".
Why can't all reviews be like this?
Wednesday, 17 October 2007
Word association
The details of your own blog at statcounter.com occasionally make worryingly addictive browsing. In the past, visitors to Polyolbion have tended to arrive via disappointingly mundane searches, but a look at this week's Key Words Analysis reveals that things have changed somewhat.
"words to mason williams’ them poems" just about makes sense, but "ventriloquism goldfinch"? "poem describing george best?"? And lastly, "who was"? God only knows how many results they got for a search like that.
"words to mason williams’ them poems" just about makes sense, but "ventriloquism goldfinch"? "poem describing george best?"? And lastly, "who was"? God only knows how many results they got for a search like that.
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