Alice Stainer

Poet; lecturer; Victorianist; singer; Scottish dancer; nature lover; wine or tea, that is the question; the sea, the sea; land of the mountain & the flood.

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

Hello poets! Thought I was going to break my promise today as I pursued a path to a dead end yesterday, but I changed poets (!!) & this has just arrived. Phew! See what you think. Looking forward to catching up with you all over a cuppa ☕️💜@TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

@HenryEOliver I did The Faerie Queene in my first week...here today, gone tomorrow. I loathe it as a result, though refer to it quite a lot...make of that what you will!

[Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu @blackboughpoems]

#fragmentsfriday #poetry

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

@BenRothenberg Weird the way she just lost her concentration & had no capacity to turn it around or even put the brakes on the slide. Schnaider did well, but Sabalenka gave her the opportunity & had literally no answers to her questions, it seems.

[C. R. Wiley @crwiley1962]

One of the benefits of a real paper and ink dictionary is the possibility of learning the meaning of words you were not looking up.

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

@RegineEbner @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith An intriguing vignette, Regine. Love the gentleman & his arms! There is something in this that resists meaning.

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

@MatthewMCSmith @TopTweetTuesday Love the shattered glass table image, Matt. The reconstitution fleshes out WCW (which suits me) & tilts its inflections towards something darker & more painful.

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

@stoneandthestar I've always found them incredible. They have such a bond & so creative. Never seen them live, though! Must have been amazing.

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

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[Team GB @TeamGB]

Dame Jayne Torvill and Sir Christopher Dean 🙌

Our iconic 1984 gold medallists have received their honours at Windsor Castle 👑

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

@RegineEbner Yeah me too. I quite often watch their routines on YouTube & am always flabbergasted. They have such a deep bond.

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

@ITattum @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith @blackboughpoems A poignant portrait, IIan. Especially enjoyed the wistful soundscape of the 2nd stanza. Effective focus on the 'thingness' of the chair a la Williams, too.

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

@ITattum @LisaFal @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith Yay!

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

Hello poets! Thought I was going to break my promise today as I pursued a path to a dead end yesterday, but I changed poets (!!) & this has just arrived. Phew! See what you think. Looking forward to catching up with you all over a cuppa ☕️💜@TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

@helen_laycock @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith A strong implied narrative in condensed language, Helen. Love the tension between the she, the him & the her. Painful! x

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

@heavycloudhaze @MatthewMCSmith @TopTweetTuesday Intriguing to come at the same matter from a different angle. The opening felt very Stevens, somehow. It would take several re-readings, I think. Well done!

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

@raybould_drs @MatthewMCSmith @TopTweetTuesday Levelling is just a weather-front away...mysterious & potent. More elemental than Stevens, perhaps, who always feels hyper-rarified to me, but I think we were meant to sound like ourselves with a hint of another!

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

@VWC_Writes @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith Thanks Vikki, glad you picked up on that. I wasn't really aiming for her style. This is v much my style with a hint of Williams & inspiration from Bishop!

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

@LisaFal @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith Thank you! I can never understand how they stand on them! 😆

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

@VWC_Writes @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith @blackboughpoems 🥰

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

@ArtistDora @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith Thank you! I'm catching up in dribs & drabs ☺️

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

@MatthewMCSmith @TopTweetTuesday Well, I started out with WCW but was getting nowhere (in general I find him frustrating as a poet), so I switched to Bishop, which helped, but by then I'd absorbed quite a lot of sparsity! So this is definitely me (I 💚 waders) with debts to both 😊 Thanks, Matt x

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

@stoneandthestar Good idea. It's been quite a significant one. I'm cowering over my tea! 😆

[Alice Stainer @AliceStainer]

Whoa, it's a dark & stormy afternoon here in Oxford. Just had to turn all the lights on. Ominous rumbles from stage right...