‘Hour’ by Carol Ann Duffy from ‘Rapture.’
Love’s time’s beggar, but even a single hour, bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich. We find an hour together, spend it not on flowers or wine, but… Read More »‘Hour’ by Carol Ann Duffy from ‘Rapture.’
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Detroit Spinners 'It's a shame'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHXFOUQBRHE One of the most alluring intros ever…loops back on itself..gets under your toes and replies to itself…demands to be turned up and up and up…enduring soul! fabulous!
Counting
The first changed the view, The second moved a few trees, The third made the sun come down, The Fourth deepened my voice. By the nineth I knew the world… Read More »Counting
VAKOG and empathy?'Foreign' One of Carol Ann Duffy's best poems?
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 »VAKOG and empathy?'Foreign' One of Carol Ann Duffy's best poems?
More Detroit Spinners:' Could it be I'm falling in love'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-ivz2RUdXY&feature=related Since I met you I’ve begun to feel so strangeEvery time I speak your name (that’s funny)You say that you are so helpless tooThat you don’t know what to… Read More »More Detroit Spinners:' Could it be I'm falling in love'
Then came you: Dionne Warwick and Spinners
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXjRYlZvOlQ&feature=related Ever since I met ya, seems I can’t forgetchaThe thought of you keeps runnin’ through the back of my mindEvery time I’m near ya, I get that urge to… Read More »Then came you: Dionne Warwick and Spinners
Bad Wolf! Dr Who: The Return of Rose Tyler!
Reunited! A time-bending, mind -bending concoction of revisitations of Dr Who adventures all remixed through the alternative possibilities of a what if’ series of scenarios where all life has taken… Read More »Bad Wolf! Dr Who: The Return of Rose Tyler!
e e cummings
i like my body when it is with your i like my body when it is with yourbody. It is so quite new a thing.Muscles better and nerves more.i… Read More »e e cummings
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
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’
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)
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
The Time Machine: H G Wells (1895) ‘And I have by me, for my own comfort, two strange white flowers – shrivelled now, and brown and flat… Read More »
Another picture of my favourite characters!
Dick Swiveller and The Marchioness in the Old Curiosity Shop
ee cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it inmy heart)i am never without it(anywherei go you go,my dear;and whatever is doneby only me is your doing,my darling) i fearno… Read More »ee cummings
The Miraculous ee cummings!!
somewhere i have never travelled somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyondany experience,your eyes have their silence:in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,or which i cannot… Read More »The Miraculous ee cummings!!
Dickens: Hard Times
‘NOW, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can… Read More »Dickens: Hard Times
Willow by MM
Willow felt alone, apart but always and forever part of something bigger, older, much wiser than herself. Strange thing for a twelve year old girl she knew, the very… Read More »Willow by MM
your voice
vowel shapes, teasing consonants, miraculous connection
Golden Ripples
Your Sea horse kissed away darkness
Truly, madly, deeply: Savage Garden
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Dg1Ymji-Q&feature=related I’ll be your dreamI’ll be your wishI’ll be your fantasy.I’ll be your hopeI’ll be your loveBe everything that you need.I love you more with every breathTruly madly deeply… Read More »Truly, madly, deeply: Savage Garden
Swiveller is announced!
At length there sauntered up, on the opposite side of the way–with a bad pretense of passing by accident–a figure conspicuous for its dirty smartness, which after a great many… Read More »Swiveller is announced!
Dick Swiveller by G K Chesterton
The real hero and heroine of The Old Curiosity Shop are of course Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness. It is significant in a sense that these two sane, strong, living,… Read More »Dick Swiveller by G K Chesterton
The Old Curiosity Shop By Dickens
‘Now,’ said Mr Swiveller, putting two sixpences into a saucer, and trimming the wretched candle, when the cards had been cut and dealt, ‘those are the stakes. If you win,… Read More »The Old Curiosity Shop By Dickens
Bad Mood
Shark-toothed morning unpicks sediment sleep
Tom Ford: Noir de Noir
Noir de Noir In an interview to International Herald Tribune, Tom Ford once said that he have always loved the night. The nocturnal Black Orchid was the first olfactory expression… Read More »Tom Ford: Noir de Noir
When we were bad by Charlotte Mendelson
This is a third novel by Charlotte Mendelson, whose second, Daughters of Jerusalem, won the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Her novels are perfectly balanced observations… Read More »When we were bad by Charlotte Mendelson
The caller
Mercy stirred her tea. Outside her grandma was talking on their only phone, throwing her tiny left hand in the air and gesturing towards the hill. More worries about the Taylors.… Read More »The caller