This week over on the s--- I've written about rugby and how English metre is a lot less syllabic than we are sometimes told. vamoul.substack.com/p/on-rugby-a...
Free associating from behind the touch-line
A lovely read, this - I was just talking about "Walking Away" this week with @badlilies.bsky.social Lots of poetry in rugby - sometimes trochaic - rarely very tasteful - "Sing a song of rugby - buttocks, booze and blood / thirty dirty ruffians, brawling in the mud" etc.
I enjoyed this immensely, and like @ravoon.bsky.social I have also had ‘Walking Away’ on my mind a lot recently. Perhaps because my son is getting married in several weeks, and I’m replaying a lot of those emotions of eighteen years ago that Day Lewis evokes so perfectly.
Many thanks for this Victoria, which I very much enjoyed. (I wonder what you make of Substack as a medium, incidentally.)