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How about some Edward Lear?

04 Saturday Aug 2018

Posted by la Clarina in Poetry

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Edward Lear, heat, limerick, nonsense poetry, summer

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!

The PolyglOwl and the Pussyglot

12 Tuesday May 2015

Posted by la Clarina in Eccentricities, Lostintranslation

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Edward Lear, Hugh Stewart, nonsense, the Owl and the Pussycat

OwlpussycatBecause 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 →

World Read Aloud Day

04 Wednesday Mar 2015

Posted by la Clarina in Stories

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#WRAD2015, Edward Lear, Litworld.org, Reading aloud, Rudyard Kipling, World Read Aloud Day

litworldWRAD15logo-web2Out 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.

Seek and Find

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