He would an elegy compose / On maggots squeez’d out of his nose
Samuel Butler on a writer of doggerel.
Tag: london
Barrel organ tweets for July 2017
The latest organ-grinder news from Hackney, London.
Sister Mary and the Bird
Translations from Welsh and Yiddish revealing ornithomancy amongst the 19th century north Welsh and Jewish Lithuanians.
Tweets for June 2017
Organ-grinding in Hackney, London.
From Charles Trenet, two musical De Gaulle anecdotes
Re the songs, L’âme des poètes and Douce France.
Cuckoos
A new translation of Joan Maragall’s poem about the anarchist bombing of the Barcelona Opera in 1893, and a limerick by the monkey.
Tweets for May 2017
Barrel-organ-ish stuff from London.
The Devil’s Corbyn of Hell
A General Election post, featuring Edgar Allan Poe, a manual for medieval female anchorites, the RSPB, Le Corbusier, Magpie Corvid, a corvine conspiracy, and Tolkien’s Nazgûl.
Tweets for April 2017
I know where your house lives, but sometimes the front door’s a struggle
Featuring Abel and Marguerite Chevalley and their Concise Oxford French Dictionary.
