Carol Ann Duffy
The Decemeber Blog birthday will be on Carol Ann Duffy. For a prequel here is a lively review of the new selected poems. More in December. Polly Clark reviews… Read More »Carol Ann Duffy
November 2006
Jackie Kay on the Short Story
This is a marvellous article by the writer Jackie Kay -quite inspirational! Jackie Kay is the author of a number of short story collections. In this article she explains why… Read More »Jackie Kay on the Short Story
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Reading through the opening description of Utterson in the novel, I am once again struck by the profound duplicity of the character description. This duplicity or narrative contradiction ‘anchors’ the… Read More »Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Demeter takes a walk
Demeter was walking in her favourite wood. She had left school for the dentist and then found no reason in her sixth form diary to return. All the golden leaves… Read More »Demeter takes a walk
Robert Louis Stevenson
The silence surrounding RLS will end today! My computer had an unhealthy number of viruses and needed a real clean up and then I was ill too. So …..