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
English Resources
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
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
Another picture of my favourite characters!
Dick Swiveller and The Marchioness in the Old Curiosity Shop
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 »
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!!
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
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
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
your voice
vowel shapes, teasing consonants, miraculous connection
Golden Ripples
Your Sea horse kissed away darkness
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!
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
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
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
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
Keats: Ode on Melancholy
NO, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist Wolfs-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine; Nor suffer thy pale forehead to be kiss’d By nightshade, ruby grape of Proserpine; Make not… Read More »Keats: Ode on Melancholy
Ode to Autumn: Keats
SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the… Read More »Ode to Autumn: Keats
MY heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute… Read More »
Ode to a Nightingale: Composition
In the spring of 1818 a nightingale had built her nest near my house. Keats felt a tranquil and continual joy in her song; and one morning he took his… Read More »Ode to a Nightingale: Composition
Keats and the 'camelion poet'.
October 27th, 1818 My dear Woodhouse,Your Letter gave me a great satisfaction; more on account of its friendliness, than any relish of that matter in it which is accounted so… Read More »Keats and the 'camelion poet'.
Augustus John: Tallulah Bankhead
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.