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1 giorno fa · In recent years, the writer and academic Robert Macfarlane has helped to raise the profile of eco-folk with his plaintive lyrics for musicians including Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis and Seckou Keita. His protest work ‘Heartwood’ – ‘Would you hew me/to the heartwood, cutter?/Would you leave me open-hearted?’ – is an obvious successor to ‘Woodman, Spare That Tree’.
5 giorni fa · Macfarlane’s eloquent words served as the thread that wove a beautiful tale, guiding listeners through undergrowth, forests, rivers, and oceans. His storytelling prowess helped to conjure vivid imagery, transporting the audience to distant lands while Flynn and the River Band provided the melodic backdrop, each song painting a picture of the vignettes Macfarlane crafted.
1 giorno fa · In recent years, the writer and academic Robert Macfarlane has helped to raise the profile of eco-folk with his plaintive lyrics for musicians including Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis and Seckou Keita. His protest work ‘Heartwood’ – ‘Would you hew me/to the heartwood, cutter?/Would you leave me open-hearted?’ – is an obvious successor to ‘Woodman, Spare That Tree’.
2 giorni fa · Judd Apatow (/ ˈ æ p ə t aʊ /; born December 6, 1967) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and comedian, best known for his work in comedy films. He is the founder of Apatow Productions, through which he produced and directed the films The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Knocked Up (2007), Funny People (2009), This Is 40 (2012), Trainwreck (2015), The King of Staten Island (2020 ...
4 giorni fa · Kingfisher – Robert Macfarlane. Sep 16 2019. Words of Wonder. Kingfisher: the colour-giver, fire-bringer, flame-flicker, river’s quiver. Ink-black bill, orange throat, and a quick blue back-gleaming feather-stream. Neat and still it sits on the snag of a stick, until with…. Gold-flare, wing-fan, whipcrack the kingfisher – zingfisher ...
5 giorni fa · In J. A. Baker’s dazzling work of nature writing, The Peregrine (1967), the first encounter with a bird is not, surprisingly, with ‘the peregrine’, rather with a nightjar. Baker compares the nightjar’s song to wine. Its song is like the sound of a stream of wine spilling from a height into a deep and booming cask.
1 giorno fa · Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American comedian, writer, producer, director, political commentator, actor, and television host. The long-running host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central from 1999 to 2015, Stewart returned to the satirical news program in 2024. He hosted The Problem with Jon Stewart on ...
