For Grace, After A Party You do not always know what I am feeling.Last night in the warm spring air while I wasblazing my tirade against someone who doesn’tinterestme,… Read More »Frank O' Hara: For Grace, after a Party
Mathew Welton was thoughtful and entertainingly reflective last week at a research day at Bolton University. He was discussing the experience of writing an opera about Frank O Hara and… Read More »Frank O Hara : Morning
Last week I attended a very enjoyable day course run by Jane Davis at the University of Bolton on the Get into Reading Project which has achieved moving and powerful… Read More »Millions.
The first time I read this helter-skelter of a novel I remember secretly crossing myself just in case….for Bulgakov’s masterpiece takes the reader to meet a very human Jesus in… Read More »Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
She wanted to taste blood. There was a certainty about her mortality which consoled; no lie; no obfuscation; no false hopes. Just the simplicity of blood. And the strange thing… Read More »Blood
The plants looked grey today and even the old crow seemed preoccupied. She had dressed carefully and wrapped a scarf about her throat and head. When she looked to the… Read More »Steppes
Both men glanced up, for the rectangle of sunshine in the doorway was cut off. A girl was standing there looking in. She had full, rouged lips and wide-spaced eyes,… Read More »John Steinbeck : Of Mice and Men.( Chapter Two) Curley's Wife.
