The Omaha World-Herald has reported some great news from Iowa where the national Poetry Out Loud competition at the Iowa School for the Deaf was won with a performance of Jabberwocky. First-time… [read full post]
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The Jabberwocky
Throw teddy out of the pram, Jabberwock is here!
Sir Christopher Lee reads Jabberwocky
Has your Monday been too mimsy? Not mimsy enough? Never fear, here is a recording of Jabberwocky read by Sir Christopher Lee, famous for playing Count Dracula, Saruman, Scaramanga and… [read full post]
Galumphing? It’s a perfectly cromulent word
Children’s author Lil Chase compiled a list of her favorite made-up words in the Guardian today. What’s interesting is how many of the words, invented fancifully by literary wordsmiths, have… [read full post]
TimeOut’s Review of Wonderland Musical is a fantastic Jabberwocky parody
The reviews have been coming in all weekend for Frank Wildhorn’s Wonderland: A New Broadway Musical (the musical formerly known as Wonderland: A New Musical and Wonderland: A New Musical Adventure.)… [read full post]
Blog claims to have Lewis Carroll reading the Jabberwocky
While not impossible (Dodgson didn’t die till after the advent of sound recording), I was skeptical when this blog 22 Words claimed to have a recording of “Lewis Carroll reading… [read full post]
Video of a space where people can meet the words in Jabberwocky
Thanks to the blog Moving Poems: The Best Video Poetry on the Web for rediscovering this Vimeo video of Hye Yeon Nam’s installation Dinner Party. I assume the video was… [read full post]
Lang Lang galumphs
No need to report every time a Jabberwocky word is used somewhere, but this was a good one. Alex Ross, The New Yorker’s classical music critic (and author of the… [read full post]
Ode to the Blingrupt
Check out Laura Rich’s (Recessionwire) “Jabberwocky” parody, “Ode to the Blingrupt” using economic-crisis terms coined by Trevor Butterworth: ‘Twas ponzipaloosa, and the slithy brokerers Did scofit and fraudit in the… [read full post]