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This site – The Drabblecast: → http://www.drabblecast.org/ offers . . . Strange Stories, By Strange Authors, for Strange Listeners The Drabblecast is an award-winning, illustrated, listener-supported audio fiction magazine, released as a free to download, weekly podcast. It features short stories at the far side of weird, including science fiction, horror, […] 
→http://poetryoutloud.org/poems-and-performance/listen-to-poetry ¤ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [1564-1616] The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music. diciembre 9th, 2014 | Tags: texts | Category: Poetry | 8 comments 
¤ Liz Lochhead ⇓
⇒Makar Liz Lochhead was born in 1947 in Motherwell, from where the family moved to the nearby village of Newarthill. It was a “very normal, very Scottish, very proddy, posh working-class / lower middle-class life”. Everyone in family read a lot and used the public library as “there […] 
¤ Robert Burns ⇐ [1759-1796] ⇒ The Peoples Poet ⇐[BBC doc] «When death’s dark stream I ferry o’er, A time that surely shall come; In Heaven itself, I’ll ask no more, Than just a Highland welcome.» ◊→ «A RED, RED ROSE» ⇓ O, my luve’s like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung […] 
Back in 2004, in Sabi, we had the privilege to host a performance by great story-teller, Tim Bowley [1945-2017] This is one of the reviews by a colleague from EOI Boadilla, Ramón Silles: «Tim Bowley’s stories are gripping and easy to follow and they are greatly helpful to students in developing […] 
Mullah Nasreddin (also spelled Nasruddin) has gathered stories from far and wide during his extensive travels. His peregrinations have taken him from Beijing to Boston, from Delhi to Delaware. He can’t remember where he was born: it was so long ago, and he’s been to so many places, that wherever he is he […] 
1914 – 1997 «Death smells… I mean death has a special smell; over and above the smell of cyanide, cordite, blood, carrion or burned flesh. It is a gray smell: stops the heart and cuts off the breath. The smell of empty bodies, the smell of field hospitals and gangrene…» [The Private Asshole] «I […] 
1920 – 1994 American prolific poet, short story writer and novelist; author of ‘Notes of a Dirty Old Man’, ‘Love Is a Dog from Hell’, and the autobiographical novels, ‘Women’, ‘Hollywood’, and ‘Post Office’. Generally speaking, you’re free till you’re about four years old. And then… five around, since you […] 
1930 – 2009 ¤ JG Ballard‘s fertile imagination fancifully envisaged yet another World War where the British and the Americans fought on different sides. ⇒ This story, ⇒«Theatre of War» ⇐ was published in his book ‘Myths of the Near Future’, and it’s written in a style which looks much the same as a […] 
∇ Slaughterhouse Five⇐ Slaughterhouse-Five is an account of Billy Pilgrim’s capture and incarceration by the Germans during the last years of World War II, and scattered throughout the narrative are episodes from Billy’s life both before and after the war, and from his travels to the planet Tralfamadore. Billy […] 
[1910 – 1999] – •→http://www.paulbowles.org/ Paul Bowles was born in Queens, New York, in 1910. He began his travels as a teenager, setting off for Paris, telling no one of his plans. In 1930 he visited Morocco for the first time, with Aaron Copland, with whom he was studying music. His early reputation was as a […] |
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