the ruin

This week on What We’re Reading and Other Stuff

Jen Read:
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood
The Ruin by Dervla McTeirnen
Paperbacks From Hell by Grady Hendrix

Shanna read:
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult

Check out our lovely friend Jennelle's poetry page as well as Shayne Koyczan if you need your cold cold frozen heart thawed as well!

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Following the epic weather of the past few weeks, we go back in time to a period that best celebrated this type of weather. In this episode we explore why the enigmatic appeal of Anglo-Saxon poetry and its fascination (or even obsession) with winter casts such an enduring influence on our culture. It is the perfect type of literature for cold winter nights, but there are also other deeper traits that remain deeply rooted in our shared cultural memories that inform our attitudes to winter.    

Journal entry:

“8th December, Wednesday

Storm Barra is barrelling around the boat
    Harrying and jostling us,
     So that the roaring world tips and sways.

The darkness is flecked silver with rain
      As Penny and I walk into a howling dawn. “

Episode Information

In this episode I mention the following books:

Michael Alexander’s (2006) The Earliest English Poems Penguin Classics series, published by Penguin Books.

Alexandra Harris’ (2015) Weatherland: Writers and artists under English skies published by Thames and Hudson. 

I read excerpts from the following poems (Michael Alexander’s translations):

The Ruin (alternative translation)

The Seafarer

Exeter riddle 73 (other texts count it as 74) 

For those wanting to explore the world of Anglo Saxon and Old English literature, you might find this website, created by Dr Aaron Hostetter from Rutgers University, very helpful: An Old English Poetry Project.

A digital version of the Exeter Book produced c.970 (in which the above are featured) can be viewed here: Exeter Book

I also mentioned Andy Grifee’s narrowboat-based crime series featuring

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