Limb-consuming Scylla
I appreciated Nicolson's summing up the twin terrors as two aspects of the female threat.
'After the monstrous-beautiful Sirens, Odysseus...
Food-rich water
Here's to hoping the future will see the ocean still full of food-rich water.
'Its dredger-bucket mouth agape...
The brimming basin of the sea
When I read this description of the sea I thought immediately of the photo you see featured here, which I...
As seamless and faceless as…
What could be more seamless and faceless than a U-boat surfacing and submerging, grey and impersonal? Apologies to all naval...
Scobie and the sea
This quote has haunted me since I first read Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet about thirty years ago. It is still on my wall...
Sea-drenched wind
I re-discover this triologism as we emerge from days of rain-drenched wind, waking up to a lush-verdant garden and landscape.  ...
Intimate with hugeness
A wonderful way to describe bobbing on the sea close to the sheer cliffs of the islands, and edging towards still,...
Poems for my family 004 – Durrell
Listening time: under 5 minutes.
Durrell has long been a favourite writer and poet. When I first read his Alexandria...
Wide as the wind
Another pithy metaphor that deserves to enter daily use: 'as wide as the wind'. Â So, let me wish you this:...
Crossing the long-haired sea
This poem by the seventh century Irish poet-monk Beccán mac Luigdech captures the ruggedness and exhilaration of crossing rampant seas...
Wave-worn boulders
An alliterative view of things water-worn over time. I have a burgeoning collection of sea-smoothed pebbles and fragments of glass...
Chopping and changing
I like how Logue places the words so they don’t flow smoothly but themselves wallop, slap back, chop and change,...
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