[R. S. Gwynn]

https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wHrx/harvoni-let-go

[Ann Drysdale]

Blimey. Those would dispossess a lot of owls...

EB spoke truth, as ever. Nobody listened.

I've joined a campaign to make the bloody things illegal.

[Jayne Osborn]

Thanks for posting this, Sam. I Googled the poem and wanted to post a link, till I read the rather dire warning. I would even have phoned for permission, but they don't allow you to do that!

The poem made me feel like crying. I will ask Annie how to join the protest against these monstrously dangerous things. How irresponsible to send them into the atmosphere!

Elizabeth Bishop, "The Armadillo" from The Complete Poems 1927-1979. Copyright © 1979 by Elizabeth Bishop. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, www.fsgbooks.com. All rights reserved.

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[Ann Drysdale]

Here you go, Jayne

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/200251

And a bit of fanfare for Wales...

https://news.rspca.org.uk/2018/02/08...cess-as-wales-
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[Rob Wright]

Since Lowell's "Skunk Hour" is an answer (in some curious ways to this poem) and has a corresponding dedication to EB, it's worth checking out. It was one of the poems I committed to memory when I began writing again in my forties.

[John Isbell]

Geoffrey Hill singled out "Skunk Hour" in class when teaching Lowell to us back in the day.

Cheers,
John