I've read #Quincunx, a short story collection by #WalterDeLaMare.
Weird, not always compelling, not always easy to follow, but always very well written and classy. Still, it's not one of the best collections I've read lately.
7/10.
I thought I'd share with you this lovely 1926 1st edition of the #WalterdelaMare collection, 'The Connoisseur', which features the brilliant, 'All Hallows'.
Tucked inside, for the last 100 years, is this letter from E.H. Simpson of William Collins, Sons & Co. Limited.
I love this sort of thing.
And the robin flew Into the air, the air, The white mist through; And small and rare The night-frost fell Into the calm and misty dell. And the dusk gathered low, And the silver moon and stars On the frozen snow Drew taper bars, Kindled winking fires In the hooded briers. And the sprawling Bear Growled deep in the sky; And Orion's hair Streamed sparkling by: But the North sighed low, "Snow, snow, more snow!"
#Poetry
#Poem
#BlueskyPoetry
#WalterdelaMare
Winter by Walter de la Mare
Sitting under the mistletoe (Pale-green, fairy mistletoe), One last candle burning low, All the sleepy dancers gone, Just one candle burning on, Shadows lurking everywhere: Some one came, and kissed me there. Tired I was; my head would go Nodding under the mistletoe (Pale-green, fairy mistletoe), No footsteps came, no voice, but only, Just as I sat there, sleepy, lonely, Stooped in the still and shadowy air Lips unseen—and kissed me there.
#Poetry
#Poem
#BlueskyPoetry
#WalterDeLaMare
Mistletoe by Walter De La Mare
Wyrd Britain reviews 'The Thunderstorm Collectors' by Mark Valentine, published by Tartarus Press.
wyrdbritain.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
#markvalentine #arthurmachen #williamhopehodgson #walterdelamare
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DreamTime
Walter de la Mare:
🎵 The Ghost
#6music #WalterdelaMare
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #InTune
Walter de la Mare, Gerald Finley, Benjamin Britten & Julius Drake:
🎵 Autumn (Tit for Tat)
#BBCRadio3 #WalterdelaMare #GeraldFinley #BenjaminBritten #JuliusDrake
#newRelease - 🆕 album
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Track on #Spotify:
Today's reading #GhostBook #CynthiaAsquith #AlgernonBlackwood #LPHartley #HughWalpole #ArthurMachen #DHLawrence #WalterDeLaMare #OliverOnions
"Gleaming with irised hues,
Afloat in light it swims—
A tiny globe of rainbow-trembling dew,
Then—gone! Like some bright dream
That leaves the waking air
Still sighing for its loveliness." Walter de la Mare (1913)
#photography #bubbles #poetry #WalterDeLaMare #sky #trees #PhotoOfTheDay
“Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.”
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/walter...
✒️ #WalterDeLaMare, British poet and author, #DOTD 22 June 1956. #Poetry #Literature
“Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.” (The Return)
Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/walter...
✒️ #WalterDeLaMare, British poet and author, was #BOTD 25 April 1873. #Poetry #Literature
Old Joe, the scarecrow.
Illustration by Rex Whistler, from Walter de la Mare’s The Lord Fish, a collection of juvenile novellas.
#walterdelamare #rexwhistler
Named after a poem by Walter de la Mare, an ornate stained glass panel by Irish artist Harry Clarke.
Harry Clarke's panel Song Of The Mad Prince, 1917 #StainedGlass #HarryClarke #WalterDeLaMare
Slowly, silently now the moon / walks the night in her silver shoon
#WalterdelaMare
Also, parts of Oliphaunt, The Cat on the Mat, and everything in #LOTR by #Tolkien
#BookologyThursday
"Very old are the woods;
And the buds that break
Out of the brier's boughs,
When March winds wake,
So old with their beauty are -
Oh, no man knows
Through what wild centuries
Roves back the rose ..."
#WalterDeLaMare
🎨#AngelaLivingstone
