Jelly babies and visiting spirits!!!
On a whim to show how easy it is to create a story through sensory impressions( Shena Mackay a great example for students in The Orchard on Fire) I wondered… Read More »Jelly babies and visiting spirits!!!
May 2010
Blanche Dubois’s ‘death speech’ in A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
I fell in love with Tennessee Williams when I was meant to be studying Victorian literature. My tutor Steve Newman was poorly and I could not get overly excited about… Read More »Blanche Dubois’s ‘death speech’ in A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Silver Lining By Carol Ann Duffy
Five miles up, the hush and shoosh of ash, yet the sky is as clean as a wiped slate- I could write my childhood there. Selfish to sit in this… Read More »Silver Lining By Carol Ann Duffy
Hopper in David Almond's The Savage.
Life rarely leaves us to deal with just one problem by itself. It seems to have little respect for singularity or tidiness!! For as this thing called ‘life’ dismantles some of… Read More »Hopper in David Almond's The Savage.
Goodbye my brother by John Cheever
I had never read Cheever before and this Vintage collection begins with a tale of reunion where a large family are reunited at some decaying holiday place on the coast.… Read More »Goodbye my brother by John Cheever
Katherine Mansfield's Journal 1906
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small — but that is the satisfaction of writing — one can impersonate so many… Read More »Katherine Mansfield's Journal 1906
From Robert Louis Stevenson's A Gossip of Romance
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of… Read More »From Robert Louis Stevenson's A Gossip of Romance