Antoinette Fawcett
@editornncomet.bsky.social
Editor of The New Comet and the Comet Bulletin for The Norman Nicholson Society: https://www.normannicholson.org/
Thank you! I enjoyed your essay. The fool's gold in the fragment of slate from Orwell's roof is very evocative (and would have appealed to the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson, whose poetry is so rooted in rock and stone).
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Thank you! I enjoyed your essay. The fool's gold in the fragment of slate from Orwell's roof is very evocative (and would have appealed to the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson, whose poetry is so rooted in rock and stone).
Thank you for posting this!
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Thank you for posting this!
This Museum is well worth a visit.
November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This Museum is well worth a visit.
Hopefully with less of a London and southern bias than at present... ☺️
November 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Hopefully with less of a London and southern bias than at present... ☺️
Congratulations to Polly!
November 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Congratulations to Polly!
A very poignant poem, beautifully set and sung with simplicity and true feeling. Thank you!
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A very poignant poem, beautifully set and sung with simplicity and true feeling. Thank you!
That's amazing! I trust the OED though! (AI may be wildly off track...)
October 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
That's amazing! I trust the OED though! (AI may be wildly off track...)
This was a favourite poem for my students when I was teaching English - at every age and level! Try getting people to perform those wonderful sounds!
October 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This was a favourite poem for my students when I was teaching English - at every age and level! Try getting people to perform those wonderful sounds!
'bimble' is a nice word! Did you invent it?
October 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
'bimble' is a nice word! Did you invent it?
An amazing video and so wonderful to hear Sorley MacGill-Eain's bardic chanting. Thank you for this link.
October 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
An amazing video and so wonderful to hear Sorley MacGill-Eain's bardic chanting. Thank you for this link.
RS Thomas's later poems are really beautiful.
October 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
RS Thomas's later poems are really beautiful.
Highly recommended!
October 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Highly recommended!
Thank you, Sue! I'm feeling a lot better already...
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October 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Thank you, Sue! I'm feeling a lot better already...
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I'm sorry to have missed this talk. Not feeling on top of the world just now (flu-like symptoms)...
October 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I'm sorry to have missed this talk. Not feeling on top of the world just now (flu-like symptoms)...
'Euridikee' sounds so much better than 'Eurydice'... 🙂
October 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
'Euridikee' sounds so much better than 'Eurydice'... 🙂
It's really very good and highly recommended. I was enthralled by her account of life in a Lincolnshire village not so very far from where I went to school as a young teenager.
October 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It's really very good and highly recommended. I was enthralled by her account of life in a Lincolnshire village not so very far from where I went to school as a young teenager.
It's an enthralling book. I followed the lives of all the real-life characters with enormous interest and a rekindled love for my long-past Lincolnshire life! Thank you, Alison, for all the research and passion that went into its writing!
October 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
It's an enthralling book. I followed the lives of all the real-life characters with enormous interest and a rekindled love for my long-past Lincolnshire life! Thank you, Alison, for all the research and passion that went into its writing!
They were looking for the Cumbrian fells to which they had been hefted!
September 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
They were looking for the Cumbrian fells to which they had been hefted!
RS Thomas at his humorous best... a poet who matured like wine into something mellow and rounded...
September 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
RS Thomas at his humorous best... a poet who matured like wine into something mellow and rounded...