Spens

We last saw Dave Swarbrick on this blog as the fiddler and singer with Fairport Convention on Sir Patrick Spens.

Whippersnapper: The Hard Times of Old England 2009

Then the warriors, a kingly escort, generals, bronzed and worn, from the ends of the earth come up to London Town, volunteer officers, officers of the militia and regular forces; Spens and

CORONATION DAY 2010

If you are around in London on 12 January, a new initiative is the Pulp. net short-story cafe, "an hour of short stories a month in the comfort ofa London coffee house" - the first venue being Costa Piccadilly, with stories by Helen Simpson, Chris Killen, Davy Spens and Stephen Moran.

December 2008 Maxine 2008

If you are around in London on 12 January, a new initiative is the Pulp. net short-story cafe, "an hour of short stories a month in the comfort ofa London coffee house" - the first venue being Costa Piccadilly, with stories by Helen Simpson, Chris Killen, Davy Spens and Stephen Moran.

David Peace and Pulp.net Maxine 2008

If you are around in London on 12 January, a new initiative is the Pulp. net short-story cafe, "an hour of short stories a month in the comfort ofa London coffee house" - the first venue being Costa Piccadilly, with stories by Helen Simpson, Chris Killen, Davy Spens and Stephen Moran.

David Peace and Pulp.net Maxine 2008

Now, such was her mood that she imagined herself sailing with Sir Patrick Spens, and when she passed a gnarled, leafless tree just before the road turned into Woodbridge she wondered whether it might not be the Eildon Tree, where true Thomas met the Queen of Elfland.

The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

Now, such was her mood that she imagined herself sailing with Sir Patrick Spens, and when she passed a gnarled, leafless tree just before the road turned into Woodbridge she wondered whether it might not be the Eildon Tree, where true Thomas met the Queen of Elfland.

The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

With this same weapon, the same inflexible champion of Scottish honour and nobility slew at one blow Spens of Kilspindie, a courtier of your grandfather, James the fourth, who had dared to speak lightly of him in the royal presence.

The Abbot 2008

Now, such was her mood that she imagined herself sailing with Sir Patrick Spens, and when she passed a gnarled, leafless tree just before the road turned into Woodbridge she wondered whether it might not be the Eildon Tree, where true Thomas met the Queen of Elfland.

The Blackstone Key Rose Melikan 2008

What I find newest now is often very old — a jingle, a rhythm, a turn, a trope that could perhaps remind me of John Skelton or "Sir Patrick Spens."

A Life's Work 2005