'December' from Eliot Hodgkin's 'The Months', 1950. The first Christmas roses, seasonal greenery, a dainty indoor cyclamen, a shop-bought anemone, a clementine from Spain and two shy early violets, with their promise of spring.
Roman glass vessels. Date: c. 1st century BC–2nd century AD. Medium: soda‑lime glass, blown freehand and in molds; forms include beakers with teardrop bosses, bird and grape flasks, amphoriskoi and head‑shaped flasks. Collections: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The British Museum, London. Corning Museum of Glass, New York. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Into Poetry's latest essay is on the Canadian poet Len Gasparini. Written by Len's widow, the writer Lisa Pike, it focuses on one of his final poems as a key to unlocking his well-crafted, freedom-loving work as a whole. https://t.co/O4TuoUBPln
❛ We write to heighten our own awareness of life. We write to lure and enchant and console others.
The view from the desk of writer Anaïs Nin, who died #OTD in 1977.