Robin Robertson reads At Roane Head - video

My favourite poet :)



Thanks to Fiona for finding this.

Synonyms for locust

It appears there aren't any. Apart from grasshopper and insect and cicada, none of which will do. I might check out the latin name, but I'm not convinced that will cut the mustard either.

What is this for, I hear you ask. It's for the latest exercise in my online poetry course with Jen Hadfield and The Poetry School

I am trying to 'negate' Robin Robertson's 'Drowning in Co Down' and somehow my negation of a poem about water and weight and drink has let me to locusts.

Some days I'm gobsmacked my brain works at all.

Robin Robertson

You can't help but love 'im. Listen here and here on the poetry archive to two of my favourite Robertson poems.