Great Regulars: From The UK Mirror: "The Twelve Days

of Christmas (2009)": Adrian Shaw presents the Poet Laureate's "grim version for our times."

From the poem:

. . . 8. One milked money to mend her moat.

from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: Carol Ann Duffy's dirty dozen

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In fact, because the parlour ceiling in Dickinson's Homestead collapsed, many of this year's festivities will occur next door (where, not unlike previous years, the first 179 visitors receive a long-stemmed rose donated by an anonymous individual who, no doubt, reveres the American original for her brief yet ethereally complete contemplations on Christ, love, forgiveness, tolerance, loyalty and, of course, the world of nature, perhaps including the following, If I could bribe them by a Rose, among myriad treasures):

If I could bribe them by a Rose

from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: Muse flashes

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Expected to fetch $700,000 USD at auction, Christie's NYC reports one of a dozen extant copies of Edgar Allan Poe's (self-published) first book, Tamerlane and Other Poems, changed unsurpassed hands this past Friday. Although the slightly stained and foxed copy fell short of expectations, it still smashed the previous American-literature record (also held by a copy of the same work) when it sold for $662,500 USD ($702,159.50 CAD).

from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: PoeTopper

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