It's hard to think of any poet more determined to stay true to the topologies of language, culture and identity, and in particular to the bogs, mists and mizzling rain of the land that grew him, and his loss is incalculable.
Along the way you see waterfalls and old-growth forest, cliffs and bogs; climb ladders, cross rivers on fallen logs and pull yourself across gorges on cable cars; and consult tide tables to avoid being trapped on beaches.
Via a short ride in Zodiac motor boats, we tramp ashore in the ship's own issue yellow rubber suits and all-important wellies, a godsend in the wet peat bogs.
A more typical SPD man than Mr Schröder could have got so mired in the bogs of German federalism (the Bundesrat, the upper house, gives the states a say on most important laws) as to achieve nothing at all.
Exceed that number, and it bogs down.
He seemed to have been running towards yet another race-meeting through the Trough of Bowland, on a ridge treacherous with peat bogs, in beautiful solitude, with his train ticket back to Everton safe in his pocket.
"In a world moving so fast," he told the conference sternly, "nothing would be more dramatic for our country than immobility .The week's theatrics underline how the system bogs down reform.
THE people of al-Naser, a township in a desert that used to be marshes, recall a day in 1994 when a cousin of Saddam Hussein's ordered them to abandon their reed houses in the adjacent bogs.
And historical inquiry inevitably bogs down in complexity.
Most roads are still unpaved and turn into terrible bogs when it rains so having a 4x4 is very useful.
Bof… A reluctant "yes" They agree on peat bogs Brussels's balm Ceci n'est plus un pays ReprintsAnother benefit of closer EU integration is that it is one of the few things all Bosnians can agree to.
