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Anne Hathaway: Carol Ann Duffy’s Written On the Body? Anne Hathawayby Carol Ann Duffy from The World’s Wife ‘Item I gyve unto my wife my second best bed …’(from… Read More »Anne Hathaway: Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife
So much hair everywhere noted the girl who had not noticed very much anything for weeks. And why this zest for parted hair ? She zig-zagged the trolley around the red… Read More »shopping
I THE opal and the sapphire of that wandering western sea, And the woman riding high above with bright hair flapping free– The woman whom I loved so, and who… Read More »Beeny Cliff: Thomas Hardy
She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance. She has sensed a shift in the weather. There is another gust of wind,… Read More »Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aijUTaDrn78 An amazingly catchy remix. Amy Winehouse has THE VOICE of today’s music. Just wish she would take up the slow lane and stop the self-destruction. Talents like her… Read More »Amy Winehouse with Mark Ronson: Valerie
George was watching the polar bear and Ms Simpson’s hat. He had decided to fall in love with a singer who would love only him and dedicate all her songs… Read More »zoo
More her than this transient flesh.
your conjurer’s fingers spelling lost traces… Your conjurer’s fingers tracing lost spells…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjT6uVJbSdg Baby Ladies Fellas Are you ready? Lets dance Baby (ooooh) I know you like me (I know you like me) I know you do (I know you do) Thats… Read More »Power to the Lip gloss Girls! Pussycat Dolls: Don't Cha
Using LANGUAGE TO WRITE and LIVE IN.It’s in not knowing, that we speak of the things that we know. Readers are friends; close and sometimes removed – intimate and incestuous… Read More »Cath Corri: Epigrams
The ward is a long ward full of chaotic things like beds and curtains and tea-trolleys. They have put me in a side room with blackened-out windows. Every four hours… Read More »Cath Corri :On the ward; in the regions of a neighbourhood?
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming.… Read More »Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway: The Opening
We were tangled in each other’s arms so that I wasn’t sure whose hand that was by my head, was it hers or mine? I moved my hand. The hand… Read More »Ali Smith: Girl meets Boy
Mrs Lazarus I had grieved. I had wept for a night and a dayover my loss, ripped the cloth I was married infrom my breasts, howled, shrieked, clawedat the… Read More »The World's Wife: Carol Ann Duffy
Is this a knock out collection or merely subversive? Or a strangely moving recognition of love gone wrong?
In August 1917, Virginia invited Katherine to spend a few days with them at Asheham. At the end of July, Katherine had been staying with Ottoline Morrell at Garsington; she… Read More »Mansfield and Woolf in Kew Gardens!
When you had dinner with Gladstone, you were left feeling that he was the most charming person you had ever met. But after dinner with Disraeli, you felt that you… Read More »Charm?
Prose Fiction 2: Essay Questions. Choose an essay question from one of the questions below. The essay should focus upon two texts on the course and should be… Read More »
Look within and life, it seems, is very far from being “like this”. Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial,… Read More »Virginia Woolf: Modern Fiction 1925
THERE was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy. When Pat swung them on top of the luggage they wobbled; the grandmother’s lap was full… Read More »Mansfield: Prelude
George felt for the weight of his Aunt’s hand behind his eyes and tried to breathe just slowly enough to find her touch again. He could not see her skin.… Read More »more hands
He waited outside the drawing-room door until the waltz should finish, listening to the skirts that swept against it and to the shuffling of feet. He was still discomposed by… Read More »Sensory Impressions in James Joyce's The Dead
it is at moments after i have dreamedof the rare entertainment of your eyes,when(being fool to fancy)i have deemed with your peculiar mouth my heart made wise;at moments when the… Read More »e e cummings: it is at moments after I have dreamed
Although they are only breath, words which I command are immortal (sappho, 600BC)
somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond by E. E. Cummings somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyondany experience,your eyes have their silence:in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,or… Read More »e.e.cummings: somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in… Read More »Sonnet XVII: Pablo Neruda
