Tag: Edith Sitwell

• 2012 Poets and Poetry Sites

  “ I wanted to read or hear the narrative of someone else – a woman and a poet – who has gone here and been there. Who had lifted the kettle to a gas-stove. Who had set her skirt out over a chair, near to the clothes dryer, to have it without  creases for the […]

  Chris Murray

  December 11, 2012

  A Saturday Woman Poet, Small Books

  Alice Oswald, Carol Ann Duffy, Eavan Boland, Edith Sitwell, Guernica, poetry, Poetry Foundation, Poetry Ireland, Review

• “Green Geese” by Edith Sitwell

  

  The trees were hissing like green geese… The words they tried to say were these:   ‘When the great Queen Claude was dead They buried her deep in the potting-shed’   The moon smelt sweet as nutmeg-root On the ripe peach-trees’ leaves and fruit,   And her sandalwood body leans upright, To the gardener’s fright, […]

  Chris Murray

  February 18, 2012

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, Art, How Words Play, Images, Poets

  A Saturday Woman Poet, Edith Sitwell, poetry

• ‘Song’ by Edith Sitwell

  Said the Bee to the Lion ‘ My life is a gold prayer-‘ Said the laughing Sun ‘My life is the gold air’   Said the Lion to the Bee ‘My life is that of the sun ; in hot gold, I rage through the gold air’   But I who have known the weight […]

  Chris Murray

  January 7, 2012

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, Art, How Words Play, Images

  A Saturday Woman Poet, Books by Women, Edith Sitwell, Gold, Poetry Foundation, Women Writers Women Books

• “Serenade: Any Man To Any Woman” by Edith Sitwell

  Serenade: Any Man to Any Woman   Dark angel who art clear and straight As canon shining in the air, Your blackness doth invade my mind And thunderous as the armored wind That rained on Europe is your hair; And so I love you till I die— (Unfaithful I, the canon’s mate): Forgive my love […]

  Chris Murray

  March 26, 2011

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, Alphabets, Magic, Maps

  A Saturday Woman Poet, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Collaborative Poetry, Edith Sitwell, Façade, music, Online Writing

• “The Octogenarian” By Edith Sitwell (Reblog)

  Re-blogging this poem, I think its about time there was a bit more Edith Sitwell on the site. it was transcribed from *Facade*, so I have to find my notes to add in the Publication date etcetera. ‘The Octogenarian Leaned from his window, To the Valerian Growing below Said, ‘My Nightcap is the only gap in […]

  Chris Murray

  June 17, 2010

  25 Pins in a packet women creators, Alphabets, How Words Play

  Art, Edith Sitwell, Literature, Nancy Spero, poetry, Women’s writing in English

• Reposting Excerpts from ‘Tula’ by Leo Tolstoy.

  There have been some difficulties with this post, which is companion to Simone Weil‘s Necessity and to Edith Sitwell‘s The Wind’s Bastinado. Both the above poems were transcribed from a small  library in Mayo, the original Tula was removed earlier today, this is an edited version. Leo Tolstoy: Essays from Tula, with an introduction by Nicolas Berdyaev. London, Sheppard Press, […]

  Chris Murray

  May 23, 2010

  Blasphemies, Censorships, Ephemera, Gardening, How Words Play, Images, Translation

  Anna Karenina, Edith Sitwell, Leo Tolstoy, Russia, simone weil, War and Peace (Shared Experience)