Mike Ferguson
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A line found in an article on Coleridge and the Pixies from the town of his birth, Ottery St Mary
On this day in 1951, the novel 'Catcher in Rye' by J. D. Salinger was published by Little Brown and Company
On this day in 1969, David Bowie released the single 'Space Oddity' nine days before Apollo 11 landed on the moon
Currently reading wonderful poet Ted Walker's 1992 emotional and lyrical 'autobiographical love story' about his wife's long illness and his coping - or not - with her death. There are also trenchant observations on so much else, like here, about Thatcher:
On this day in 1965, the Rolling Stones scored their first US number 1 single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
Today’s flying ones emerged en masse into a generative TextAnt poem
On this day in 1852, fugitive slave Frederick Douglass delivered his 'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?' speech to the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, condemning the celebration as a hypocritical sham
On this day in 1855, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems 'Leaves of Grass' is published in Brooklyn, New York
On this day in 1843, an alligator fell from the sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina - according to the Times-Picayune newspaper
On this day in 1971, Reprise Records released 'Blue', Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell's 4th studio album
My poem in the June '26 collection of Blood+Honey: www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/a-sto...
image/words | words/images - a wonderful collaboration and this is a beautiful book, and a proper book: hardback, colour, great press, sound price for what is on offer. Recommended.
Ted Walker’s first poetry collection from 1965, and this poem – originally published in the ‘New Yorker’ in 1963 – with its lyrical journey to that undertow of brooding. A Collected Works is making its way to publication and reminding us of this important, wonderful English poet.
On this day in 1966, 'Paint It Black' by The Rolling Stones peaked at #1 in the US
Ed Walker, son of the fine English poet Ted Walker (mainly 60s/70s), has written a Collected Poems with wonderful, insightful commentaries/notes. I have been a fond fan since 18! Looking for publishers – any ideas/recommendations from the poetry community here?
On this day in 1924, 'Jelly-Roll Blues' was recorded by American jazz pioneer pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton
Generative TextArt: on this day in 1549, the Book of Common Prayer was adopted by the Church of England
On World Ocean Day, a poem available soon in my latest collection...
It is World Multiple Sclerosis Day and the theme is 'My MS Diagnosis'
On this day in 1692, William Phips, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, authorized a special Court of Oyer and Terminer ("to hear and determine") to administer the Salem witch trials
Sampler: 20th poetic diary entry for a year's writing task, started in the week beginning 1.1.26...