Showing posts with label Death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Death. Show all posts
Thursday, 23 July 2020

Gatherings and spillings for the future

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All who loved and honoured Norman Morrissey were sad today three years ago to learn of his crossing, at 3:13 on that Sunday morning. Today...
Saturday, 4 April 2020

The sun and the avocet

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Before he rose today, the sun asked the avocet - "What have you found during your foragings this dawn?" The avocet looked around...
Tuesday, 23 July 2019

2 years today

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Saturday, 20 April 2019

Fireside talk: a beautiful new world

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Relaxing by the hearth before a lovely blaze, my friend says,  "If you say you have a book of poems I must read, I'll tell yo...
Wednesday, 27 February 2019

Epigraph for Greater Matter - a hitherto unpublished poem by Norman Morrissey

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Future You say you've finally found where you must die – here, with me or in the aura of my own passing. That is a fut...
Tuesday, 4 December 2018

Covenantal selves (another hitherto unpublished poem by Norman Morrissey)

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Not long ago I found a poem by Norman, which I remember him drafting back in 2012, over a weekend during which he spoke about almost nothing...
Friday, 17 August 2018

... getting there slowly ...

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I am very grateful to the kind people who are offering their precious time to read the third draft critically. I look forward to their feed...
Friday, 10 August 2018

Epigraphs from the first hard copy

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The first hard copy will, I hope, allow me the necessary detachment for a decent self-edit ... The 'greater matter' quip derives...
Sunday, 22 July 2018

Elegy for Norman

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Elegy in 7 parts for Norman (3.10.1949 - 23.7.2017) 1. Still watching a movie This evening a year ago we danced you to the end  ...
Saturday, 21 July 2018

Some words to my readers ...

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Filmmaker Riccardo Magnanini asked me some months back to say a few things about my book to my readers, so I did, spontaneously. Riccardo ...