04 Saturday Aug 2018
Posted in Poetry
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Because, say what you will, some nonsense always helps.
While not perhaps at Etna-levels, the weather is pretty hot, in my corner of the world…
Here’s to cooling August rains!
12 Tuesday May 2015
Posted in Eccentricities, Lostintranslation
Because the next Ad Alta Voce meeting will be all about literary cats, I was hunting through the Net for a suitable Italian translation of Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat*, when I stumbled on a website boasting no less than 126 translations of the poem in 111 languages… Continue reading
04 Wednesday Mar 2015
Posted in Stories
Out of schedule, I know…
Did you know it is World Read Aloud Day?A whole day, all over the world, devoted to this age-old, all-important way to share written words, stories and ideas.
Have a look at the dedicated LitWorld website, enjoy clips of Kipling’s The Smugglers’ Song and Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat read aloud, and maybe, before the day is over, find someone to read something to.
