A STATEMENT FROM TRIXIE THE CAT
Yes, Brothers and Sisters of the Shakespeare Code…….
……..one of its most illustrious Fellows……
……Eddie Linden, F.S.C…..
…….. celebrates his 79th Birthday this week.
Here is the photograph of him that graces London’s National Portrait Gallery…..
Tom X and I saw the Great Poet yesterday……
…….as he sauntered through the heady streets of Maida Vale, West London…….
……where a spectacular Canal Boat Regatta was being held in Little Venice…..
Another Great Poet, Robert Browning……
…..once lived in a house now occupied by the nondescript white block of flats shown in the photo……
A Grand Dinner is to be held in honour of Eddie…..
……and to honour Eddie in its own way, The Shakespeare Code now prints what it considers the finest of his poems:
THE NEST
The echo of the burn as it runs yellow
And the dark blue slag on the pit surface
Reminded him of his past.
The wheel of life sounded its
Message of time.
The blast of death
Rang its bells in the hearts of the homes.
The grim face in the mirror
Faded with time into the slag heaps
From where he came.
The moon revealed its ugly village casa.
A dog howled its death-like sound,
A baby cried from the cold of the night,
A father knelt in
the bowels of the earth, waiting for light
In the darkest hell, where he never saw.
Only winter remained.
And nothing returned to the nest
In the tree, but the snow that covered
The world of his past.
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A collection of Eddie’s poems, A Thorn in the Flesh……
…….has been published in a beautiful edition by the enterprising ‘Hearing Eye’……
If you would like to read Your Cat’s NOW CLASSIC interview with Eddie on his Acceptance of his Fellowship, please click: HERE
And if you would like to read Your Cat’s FÊTED review of the Collection, please click:
So, it’s Happy Birthday, Eddie Linden…..
…..F. S. C…
…..from all of us at The Code….
‘Bye, now….
The Shakespeare Code 
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