Friday, 30 June 2017
forked tree, enchanted forest, tranquil thames, mst gr, neglected allotment..., powysland by tim blanchard
This tree that I pass most days, I hadn't really noticed until this week. It's partly hidden from the path but then I would have thought that it would have been even more striking in the bare winter and early spring.
Head full of too many other things, obviously.
It's a tall, many-stemmed tree, perched on its forked trunk - and there's a savage face at the base of them.
Altogether, a sinuous, almost writhing, web-footed - so-many-things-contained-in-it - being.
A little further on, there was a melting toadstool.
Quite the enchanted forest, really!
Only when I got to the tranquillity of the Thames beyond the station did things calm down.
A busy week? Goes without saying. The MSt Guided Retreat this weekend, so there's been lots of reading to do - on the bus and in the evenings. Rewarding reading, though. I'm looking forward to seeing the students for the last time and to listening to the end-of-course showcase readings they all give on Monday night.
The allotment has been a touch neglected, though.
Meanwhile, I was sent a link earlier in the week to a page on the website of Unbound, the excellent crowd-funding publisher, for a book on the wonderful, extraordinary John Cowper Powys. It's title is, Powysland: The Greatest Writer You've Never Heard Of, And What We Can Learn From Him and it's by member of the Powys Society, Tim Blanchard. Worth checking out. Worth sponsoring, if you have the spare cash!
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I'm very interested in the Powys brothers and in their close friend Sylvia Townsend Warner, so I'll look into it. Thanks Frank.
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