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British Counties in Verse


Refusing a Legend: Writing Glastonbury Tor Minus Avalon | Somerset In Verse - Exmoor To Levels In Poetry
Glastonbury Tor is the most mythologised hill in England. I wrote a poem about clay shrinkage instead — and I am still not certain I was right. A realistic wide landscape photograph of Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, England, seen from across the flooded winter levels. Glastonbury Tor has been the Isle of Avalon since at least the twelfth century. It carries Arthur, Guinevere, Joseph of Arimathea, the Holy Grail, the ley lines and a great deal of living spiritual practice. Walk

Alden Carrow
Aug 257 min read
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