MTB: Imagism in 5
On this day 70 BC, the poet Virgil was born and yet as with this extract from “First Georgic” i.e. …
Author Archives: Laura Bloomsbury
MTB: Five Leavings from Home
The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheep’s wool, was …
MTB: Compounding the Stem
In his poem “The Mower against Gardens” Andrew Marvell intimates that many gardening techniques create hybrid mixtures as mix-ups, compounded …
Meeting the Bar: Legs Eleven
In Bingo, the ‘legs eleven’ call refers to the 2 leggy uprights which constitute the written number. In Old English …
MTB: Taking a Fine Line Down
It’s the last MTB of May and to some of us in the Northern hemisphere that means summer is just …
