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Monthly Archives: February 2021

The coast of Hisperica

i.m. Umberto Eco (1932-2016) . This frothing sea surrounds the world and beats earth’s borders with its rushing waves. Its storm-wall slams the rocky foreshore, ploughs the bed with thumping crests, strewing shingled foam in starry furrows, ever-shaken by its thunderous blast. .

The Evensong at the End of the World

On singing evensong for Candlemas, in Stanley Cathedral. — For The Critic