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Peas, Bears, Birds and Stars…
Pea tendrils sweeping the air for lattices.(Pic from Anglia Farmer). Peas are clocky children who become spoony adults. Once they grow long-limbed, they start to teeter, because they possess more self than they can support. Then they grow madly wending tendrils to sweep the air for lattices – just as marionettes will grow marionette cords to…
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Novel on Yellow Paper
The cover shows a detail from CatherineCarrington, by Dora Carrington. Novelist and poet Stevie Smith seems to have become a forgotten author, but back in the middle of the last century her spare, wry poems were immensely popular, offering a skewed view of suburban life that questioned our perceptions and made us think about loneliness,…
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A Little List of Books….
I’ve now finished the ‘treat’ books which I bought courtesy of my mother, and I’m delighted to say there wasn’t a dud among them – I loved them all. Actually, when I say I’ve completed them, I’m lying, because I’ve got two Works in Progress where I opted for slow reads: Vere Hodgson’swartime diaries, Few…
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Short Story Sunday: Forbidden Love
It’s Sunday, so it’s short story time again, and this week I’ve abandoned Persephone for Virago and I’m dipping into Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Selected Short Stories, which are every bit as wonderful as I hoped they would be. These tales, written between 1932 and 1977, are as sharply subversive as her other work led me…
The Book Trunk 