Christo46's Blog
Christo46
- Location
- Blackpool, Lancs., United Kingdom
- Birthday
- July 05
- Title
- Writer
- Company
- Retired
- Bio
- Retired former Further Education lecturer in English & Drama. A wife, Anne, and step-son, Commercial Director Damian, who this month turned 40, and plans to get married to Alison in 2010.
MY RECENT POSTS
- THE LAST THING THEY'LL WRITE
August 31, 2010 12:12PM - THE AGE OF EXPLORATION PART I
August 31, 2010 07:28AM - Hatching, Matching &
Despatching
July 18, 2010 07:34AM - When I'm 64
July 06, 2010 09:23AM - Best Wishes for Independence
Day
July 04, 2010 08:24AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “A beautifully realised
anecdote, Vince.
Two cats
share us with a couple of
neighbo…”
September 13, 2010 12:28PM - “So right, Vince - I've
re-posted your final comment
to my
Wall as it sums up so
m…”
August 31, 2010 07:46AM - “Thanks for your kind
note, Sgt. Mom - those of us
able to
attend the funeral
disc…”
July 18, 2010 03:25PM - “A Happy Birthday wish
all the way from the UK -
thanks,
Graham - I attended a
fun…”
July 18, 2010 06:38AM - “Clearly I have managed
to irritate you, Kasia, and
for that I
apologize.
Please…”
July 04, 2009 12:36PM
Christo46's Links
THE LAST THING THEY'LL WRITE
What a vivacious, comprehensive and valuable organisation is the U.S. Poetry & Writers, Inc.
From Poets & Writers, Inc.
POETS & WRITERS IS MORE than a magazine. We are a nonprofit organization that puts money directly into the hands of writers who give readings and lead workshops
THE AGE OF EXPLORATION PART I
THE AGE OF EXPLORATION I – Family & Friends
This coming November it will be two years since I signed up on Facebook & Open Salon, and I have yet to regret my decision, partly because I have carefully restricted who counts as a “FRIEND” in Facebook/Salon terms and has… Read full post »
Hatching, Matching & Despatching
Particularly as she grew older, Nan (my mother's mother, and my only living grandparent when I was tiny) pored over the Births, Marriages and Deaths columns in the local paper's Classified ads.
Now that I am reaching the stage of my life (mid-60s) that she was then, I cannot believe I… Read full post »
When I'm 64
In our salad days, as here when The Beatles were twenty-something (remember that Ringo turns 70 soon), we relied on artists such as them, our own observations, and comments by various "members of the older generation" whom our family knew to provide an insight into "getting older".
Not that I t… Read full post »
Best Wishes for Independence Day
I've posted this from Garrison Keillor's excellent Writer's Almanac on my FB page, but expect to reach far more online friends this way:
Thoughtful Voyeur: Woman and Cantaloupe
by Cindy Gregg
Watch her select it
over sassier summer
fruits, carved offerings
of purple, yellow,&n/
Edward Hopper and the House by the Railroad (1925)
Carcarnet !SBN 978-1-85754-982-9
The House by the Railroad
Out here in the exact middle of the day
This strange, gawky house has the expression
Of someone being stared at, someone holding
His breath underwater, hushed and exp/… Read full post »
ELLIS ISLAND & BLACKPOOL (UK)
What has started me off on this journey of discovery is reading the poetry collection Queen of a Rainy Country by Linda Pastan (pub. By W.W. Norton ISBN 978-0-39333141-7) and two of the poems it contains in particular.
The first is MAIDEN NAME:
My daughter’s… Read full post »
NORWAY DAY TODAY (from Garrison Keillor's Writers' Chronicle
All I remember of Scandinavia at school wa/
Carnation Summer - a memoir
I suppose I should start with feeling what seemed to be a cold hand in the small of my back, but which proved eventually to have been a chilly draught of air from our front door at 18, Huntley Avenue in Layton, Blackpool, as the ambulance men carried their patient past… Read full post »
Czeslaw Milosz - more boiographical detail
Reprint from FamousPoetsandPoems.com
Biography of Czeslaw Milosz:
Born in Szetejnie, Lithuania in 1911, died 14 August 2004 in Cracow. Poet, novelist, essayist and translator. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980 and has won several other prestigious awards, including a 1976 Gugg… Read full post »
Biography of Czeslaw Milosz, Lithuanian Poet
Reprinted from the Lithuanian e-zine, LABAS, which owns the
copyright, I assume.
Czeslaw Milosz, a Nobel laureate and longtime UC
Berkeley professor
whose emotional and intellectually expansive poetry
and prose were colored
by his experiences from the wartime horror and
political upheaval of
the 20th centur… Read full post »
Vilnius Streets by Susan Andersen
"Why should that city, defenseless and pure as the wedding necklace of a forgotten tribe, keep offering itself to me?" (C. Milosz, "Dictionary of Vilno Streets") Bridegroom you are timid with my language Lapis and carnelian seal your lips… Read full post »
John Masefield, Louis MacNeice & Tony Langham
John Masefield was, I think, forever regarded as rather "Old School" as he ascended to the post of Poet Laureate in 1930 on the death of/… Read full post »
Fog Is The Key
I've tried to recall the earliest bits of doggerel, but I'm sure that my recognition/… Read full post »
Schoolyard Rhymes to Poetry Professorships
"Dip, Dip, Dip,
My Blue Ship..."
Along with this, and the wording becomes hazy after the opening couplet in my 62-year-old memory, the first bits of doggerel I recall are:
"G's for the Guards in their scarlet & gold,
A truly magnificent sight to behold !"
pitter-pattered out in the quadrangle… Read full post »
Memorial Day & Remembrance Sunday
For my first post, as I have been impressed with the quality of the Memorial Day posts from North America, I thought I would borrow a full description (from Wikipedia) of how here in the UK we commemorate those who have given their lives for our freedom in World Wars/… Read full post »
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