Today, October 8, is (naturally) Octopus Day β¦ Hugh MacDiarmid embraced the octopus as a many-branched model of the cosmos in his epic π ππ³πΆπ―π¬ ππ’π― ππ°π°π¬π΄ π’π΅ π΅π©π¦ ππ©πͺπ΄π΅ππ¦ (1926)
Extract from Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry (Carcanet, 2004)
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