Creature Feature (14): Hippo and Echo

A WALLOW IN THE REALMS

OF THE BLUE HIPPOPOTAMUS

Our local students baked hippo biscuits yesterday. This is the one that got away! My 'Echo on the Nile' poem about a faience hippo can now be read online on Professor Lewis Turco's site, 'The Book of Odd and Invented Forms'. If you follow the link, you will need to scroll down to the section on 'Echo Verse' (or do a 'Find' search on a word e.g. 'Nile'). You might like to take a look at my Echo blog here.

Egyptian blue-green faience hippos have long fascinated me. I have even got the T-shirt, as you will see if you click the link here (didn't we look young then?!).

I hope you will enjoy finding out more about these lovely creatures.

• Hippo Conservation
• Year of Biodiversity: Pygmy Hippo
  

Magazine Moment (4): Poetry Cornwall / Bardhonyeth Kernow and Echo Verse

The right end of the Whispering Seat in the grounds of Wilton House, Wiltshire
(Click to enlarge if you would like to read the green notice!)

The latest edition, issue 26, of Poetry Cornwall / Bardhonyeth Kernow (ed. Les Merton) includes my short article on Echo Verse and my poem, 'Echo from the West'. Do let me know if you encounter examples of this fascinating form of poetry.

You can read about my Echo Verse explorations on my Echo blog here.

• Subscription details of Poetry Cornwall / Bardhonyeth Kernow can be found by following this link.