Acknowledgements.Title: The Drollery. Cover: from (Wikipedia) Master of the Brussels Initials and Associates (French) - Hours of Charles the Noble, King of Navarre (1361-1425), fol. 325r, Text - 1964.40.325.a - Cleveland Museum of Art cropped.jpg Published by Malfranteaux Concepts Printed by Retro Overflow Pamphlet no 220 Sheena Blackhall April 2026 For more information on publications by Sheena Blackhall see www.nls.uk/catalogues/online/index/html. www.poemhunter.com http://smiddleton4.wix.com/sheena-blackhall. An interview in podcast form with the poet appears on http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/connect/podcast/sheena-blackhall https://sheenablackhall.wordpress.com/ showcases over 2,000 poems in themes, set up and edited by Pauline Cordiner, storyteller. Some of these poems were inspired by a research trip to Inversnaid.Thanks are due to Malfranteaux Concept for publishing this volume, and to guest writer Kenna Anderson for setting up and editing the linked in version, and for her contribution to the pamphlet, The Soul of a Child. Some of the poems were inspired by mythical creatures from Aberdeen University’s Bestiary.A drollery, often also called a grotesque, is a small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript, most popular from about 1250 through the 15th century. The most common types of drollery images appear as mixed creatures, either between different animals, or between animals and human beings, or even between animals and plants or inorganic things. Examples include cocks with human heads, dogs carrying human masks, archers winding out of a fish's mouth, bird-like dragons with an elephant's head on the back etc.
