Foreign by Carol Ann Duffy
Imagine living in a strange, dark city for twenty years.There are some dismal dwellings on the east sideand one of them is yours. On the landing, you hearyour foreign accent… Read More »Foreign by Carol Ann Duffy
May 2008
You by Carol Ann Duffy ( Rapture)
YOU Uninvited, the thought of you stayed too late in my head. so I went to bed, dreaming you hard, hard, woke with your name, like tears, soft, salt, on… Read More »You by Carol Ann Duffy ( Rapture)
Carol Ann Duffy ‘Warming her pearls’ and Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith’
‘Who’s zoomin’ who?’ Hierarchies of Intimacy in Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith and Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Warming her pearls’. The dramatic monologue often explores the unsettling ambivalence of desire. A voice… Read More »Carol Ann Duffy ‘Warming her pearls’ and Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith’
Dorothy L Sayers: Gaudy Night
How much do we love Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane?!
Dancing Girls!
Dancing girls
Bruce Chatwin: Restless Traveller
“I should set down on paper a résumé of the ideas, quotations and encounters which had amused and obsessed me; and which I hoped would shed light on what is,… Read More »Bruce Chatwin: Restless Traveller