Snow
Words and music: Saint Etienne, ‘Snow’ from ‘A Glimpse of Stocking’. Continue reading Snow
Tag: Winter
A Book of the Winter
Edith Sitwell’s diamond-bright collection of winter writing, including this by Osbert Sitwell… Continue reading A Book of the Winter
A Mummer’s Play for Yule
Woodcuts by David Gentleman from Saint George and the Dragon – a mummer’s play by John Langstaff, published in 1973 in the United States and Canada. It contains the script of a typical mummer’s play which explores the death of Winter through the symbolic figure of Saint George: First comes Christmas, Then comes Spring. Like … Continue reading A Mummer’s Play for Yule
Five Gold Rings with a psychedelic soul
London in winter and Sir Christopher Wren in a kaleidoscope world… the twelve days of Christmas reinvented by Corinne Drewery and Andrew Connell, aka Swing Out Sister. Life as cinema, panoramas of sound. Continue reading Five Gold Rings with a psychedelic soul
The battle of the robin and the wren
There’s a lot of fascinating folklore around the robin and the wren. At the winter solstice, the Holly King is driven away and the Oak King takes his place until the summer. Similarly, I have read that the robin rules once the wren is vanquished in December. Jean Harrowven writes in her book Origins of … Continue reading The battle of the robin and the wren
More Winter in July – Frost at Midnight by Sarah Nixey
A magical song from Sarah Nixey and the 2011 album ‘Brave Tin Soldiers’, which made driving along in the mist and rain yesterday something fantastically atmospheric in a Coleridge sort of way. I like her received pronunciation which gets me thinking of some lost gem of British cinema from 40 years ago or so. Luckily … Continue reading More Winter in July – Frost at Midnight by Sarah Nixey
Winter in July – Dr Zhivago and Pasternak’s poems, 1968
Pen and ink illustrations by Bill Greer for Boris Pasternak’s poems from Doctor Zhivago. They were issued as a single volume in 1969, and followed David Lean’s film from the year before with Julie Christie and Omar Sharif. The stills are taken from Lean’s film. I remember Doctor Zhivago being screened on a Sunday evening … Continue reading Winter in July – Dr Zhivago and Pasternak’s poems, 1968
WHISTLES IN THE WIND 