Billy Mills

@billymills.bsky.social

Irish poet, cricket fan, book reviews, Bob Dylan.
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"I give as examples Billy Mills, Susan Howe and J.H. Prynne, although the assumption that they write for themselves is entirely my own" J.C.C. Mays

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Today, Oct 8, is (naturally) #OctopusDay … Hugh MacDiarmid embraced the octopus as a many-branched model of the cosmos in his epic 𝘈 π˜‹π˜³π˜Άπ˜―π˜¬ π˜”π˜’π˜― π˜“π˜°π˜°π˜¬π˜΄ 𝘒𝘡 𝘡𝘩𝘦 π˜›π˜©π˜ͺ𝘴𝘡𝘭𝘦 (1926)

Extract from Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry – @carcanet.bsky.social 2004
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A mony-brainchin' candelabra fills The lift and's lowin' wi' the stars; The Octopus Creation is wallopin' In coontless faddoms o' a nameless sea. I am the candelabra, and burn My endless candles to an Unkent God. I am the mind and meanin' o' the octopus That thraws its empty airms through a' th' Inane.
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