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Harold Massingham

Posted 12-04-2010 at 03:26 PM by Steve Bucknell
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I remember the upstairs room at the George and Dragon in Wath-upon-Dearne, a meeting of Wath Writers: Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley, John Turner, David Harmer...Peter , Keith and me...Listening to Harold Massingham reading his “Ballad of Trees” and his “Impressions of Canvases by Van Gogh.” Both were later published in Sonatas & Dreams, Littlewood Arc 1992. I agree with Ian that Massingham, born in Mexborough in 1932, is “one of the great lost Yorkshire writers; a proto-Martian poet before Craig...
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A book of the winter

Posted 12-03-2010 at 07:54 AM by Steve Bucknell
Updated 12-03-2010 at 02:45 PM by Steve Bucknell
Thanks Ed, don't know R.P.W's work. A pleasure to read. I'm trying to post a few photos from the garden and a walk up to Wind Hill crags I went on today.







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John Clare

Posted 12-02-2010 at 10:40 AM by Steve Bucknell
Updated 12-03-2010 at 02:18 AM by Steve Bucknell
Confused about snow-depth I take out a tape and find it 16 inches deep on the back lawn (40cms). I spend two hours clearing the drive and the path around the house. The snow-shovel cuts and lifts satisfyingly square blocks like white turves. Displaced mounds accumulate at the side of the house, in the garden and at the roadside. Step by step and block by block the drive becomes a way out again onto the lane.

More snow forecast, more snow falling and the roads still white. I decide...
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Arthur Rimbaud

Posted 12-01-2010 at 11:25 AM by Steve Bucknell
Updated 12-01-2010 at 11:34 AM by Steve Bucknell
I work the afternoon shift, but can’t get home. As the evening progresses all roads are blocked. I stay and work the night shift, getting three hours fitful sleep between one and four in the morning on the floor of a meeting-room. I work the morning shift until midday, and then get a lift in a 4X4 home. The white roads are empty of traffic. Pedestrians struggle along with bags of shopping. It is a gently apocalyptic scene. The snow piles high at the sides of everything.

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Dithmar Blefkins

Posted 11-30-2010 at 04:35 AM by Steve Bucknell
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Sam comes to tell me with querulous calls that it has snowed heavily in the night. My first task is to clear a path for him and open some ground under the hedge. He follows me and squats down gratefully after scratching out the damp ground. He then races back into the house as if pursued by demon dogs.

I spend two hours clearing the path and the steep drive to the garage. Feeling energetic I dig out neighbour Raymond’s drive too. He’s in his eighties but needs to get his car out...
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