Rambling At The Bridge Head – Russian and Welsh poetry etc.

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• Harvest at Mynachlog by Gillian Clarke – Rambling At The Bridge Head

  At last the women come with baskets,The older one in flowered apron,A daisied cloth covering the breadAnd dappled china, sweet teaIn a vast can. The women stoopSpreading their cups in the clover. The ...

• Escapes (1986) : Horror Anthology Film Review – Rambling At The Bridge Head

  An anthology of five tales of terror, each originally produced for video. The titles are "A Little Fishy" (a.k.a. ''Something's Fishy''), "Coffee Break", "Who's There", "Jonah's Dream" and "Think Twic...

• A Hibernating Hedgehog by Martin Honeysett – Rambling At The Bridge Head

  A hibernating hedgehog, Woke up to greet the spring, He'd set the alarm for half-past May, But he hadn't heard it ring. In fact he'd gone and overslept, A silly thing to do, Not only had he missed the...

• Ленинград (Leningrad) by Osip Mandelstam – Rambling At The Bridge Head

  I returned to my city, familiar as tears,As veins, as mumps from childhood years. You've returned here, so swallow as quick as you canThe fish oil of Leningrad's riverside lamps. Recognize when you ca...

• Nicholas Was… by Neil Gaiman – Rambling At The Bridge Head

  Nicholas Was... older than sin, and his beard could grow no whiter. He wanted to die. The dwarfish natives of the Arctic caverns did not speak his language, but conversed in their own, twittering tong...

• A Winter Visit by Dannie Abse – Rambling At The Bridge Head

  Now she's ninety I walk through the local parkwhere, too cold, the usual peacocks do not screechand neighbouring lights come on before it's dark. Dare I affirm to her, so agèd and so frail,that from o...