Gladys Hindmarch
A seventh, unnamed ‘editor’, Gladys Hindmarch, was near the centre of their energy vortex. At the same time she was writing nursery rhyme variations in prose rhythms derived from Jack Kerouac and from high...
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this weekend’s words
mearns unable to confirm this definition online but I read that it became a generic term for poetry written about something that isn’t there, after William Hughes Mearns’ little verse “Antigonish” ekphrasis in contrast,...
“new wave fabulists”
make it weird
garance red
Rouge de garance Garance red, like indigo blue, is a real colour.
ullr, the onion of war
Ullr, the onion of war! We carried the seeds of the Fyrisvellir on the mountains of the hawks during all of Hakon’s life; now the enemy of the people has hidden the flour of...
mayan codices
The Maya god Chaak as a scribe in the Madrid Codex. Illustration courtesy of the Museo de América, Madrid. Maya Hieroglyphic Codices Website This site features a translation and analysis of four codices (screenfold...
jarchas
Reasons to like the jarcha: Discovered in 1948 Previously hidden due to lack of vowels Of popular origin Written by women Vernacular ending of a longer form written in classic Arabic or Hebrew called...