Names, naming and words by Lois

Words, words, words

I love language and words, fascinated by their origin and original meaning and their metamorphosis into something else. Even though I am always correcting my children’s grammar, I love the way new styles of language come in, text-speak can be so original and creative, for example. Other languages also interest me and part of the […]

More
Poems by Lois

The Shout

Simon Armitage is a local lad, well, local to us when we lived in the north of England.He comes from across the Pennine Hills In Lancashire (the people of those hills, by the way had their own ancient language until well after the Norman Conquest) Simon was born in Marsden, a pretty little town in Yorkshire, in 1963 and was a probation officer. […]

More