This week saw the return of the cormorant which prompts a visit to Ernest Ingersoll to find out why they have no voice. A fairly severe reaction to the Covid jab meant that I missed attending this year’s graduation ceremony so join me as I think about past ceremonies and reflect on the journey of those passaging from graduand to graduate.
Journal entry:
9th November, Wednesday
“Here they come’
Like a stream in spate,
Rolling black pebbles in its wake.
Half a dozen tree-fulls of rooks,
Crows, jackdaws pouring
across a skyline of dying embers
And mauve.
Their chatter
rises up to me, intense,
busy with life
and the most serious of pleasures.
Their words are full of comfort.”
Episode Information:
In this episode I read an excerpt from Ernest Ingersoll’s (1923) Birds in Legend, Fable and Folklore published by Longmans, Green and Co. (link will take you to free open access text).
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In the intro and the outro, Saint-Saen's The Swan is performed by Karr and Bernstein (1961) and available on CC at archive.org.
Two-stroke narrowboat engine recorded by 'James2nd' on the River Weaver, Cheshire. Uploaded to Freesound.org on 23rd June 2018. Creative Commons Licence.
Piano and keyboard interludes composed and performed by Helen Ingram.
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