The poet Keats once famously avowed that writers were like ‘camelions’- chameleons in the sense that they enter ‘into’ their characters and then even ‘become’ their characters for a while.… Read More »Daphne Du Maurier in overalls: Kiss me again, stranger!
Reading this story on my inversion table just now seemed to double the peculiarity of the experience. For not only did I jolt out of ANY expectations I may have… Read More »The Old Man by Daphne Du Maurier: A twist with a twist!
I first read Susan Hill’s collection The Boy who taught the beekeeper to read in June 2003. I can’t remember if that June was a sunny month, but I always… Read More »Susan Hill’s story: The Boy who taught the beekeeper to read.
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is locked up in the ‘red room’ early in the novel and there suffers mental anguish and torment because of her cruel treatment by her… Read More »Does Jane Eyre ever escape the ‘red room’ or is she metaphorically incarcerated there for the entire novel?
I have just discusssed the GCSE Descriptive writing ‘challenge’ for students in my previous blog. Before I retire to read the Sarah Waters’ Novel,The Nightwatch, I wanted to add AN ESSENTIAL… Read More »How can English Tuition BOOST your grades?
Oddly enough many students feel under confident about the descriptive writing component of the GCSE English curriculum. I say oddly enough as my personal taste always veers strongly in the… Read More »English tuition and GCSE Descriptive writing.
But Briar crept on me. Briar absorbed me. Now I feel the simple weight of the woollen cloak with which I have covered myself and think, I shall never escape!… Read More »Sarah Waters' Fingersmith- revisited!
Sarah Waters’ novel The Nightwatch is dramatised tonight. I must confess I started the novel when it was first published and then abandoned the experience, disappointed by the careful restraint… Read More »Sarah Waters: The Night Watch
A Smart light: Inner knowing, self-constructed reality. A stream of stimuli meeting higher level or lower level thoughts. Knowing what we feel, feeling what we know. Yes! By Moira… Read More »Jamie Smart with Manchester Business NLP and EI Group: July 5th 2011.
July 4th is the USA’s National Day of Celebration. Independence Day is celebrated by Americans all over the world, enjoying the powerful awareness that experiencing Independence from the ‘shackles’ of dependency… Read More »When is your Independence Day? July 4th everyday!
Today the young blackbird I’d scooped off the patio, panting, motionless head down on the paving, took an initially faltering return into the world as good as new! Last night… Read More »We are the animal Kingdom-Life is confidence!
‘The awful daring of a moment’s surrender, which an age of prudence can never retract.’ ( T.S.Eliot, The Wasteland.) This quotation stopped me in my tracks whilst reading Aidan… Read More »What risks are you taking by staying where you are?
I offer Expert English Tutoring from Horwich, Bolton, just 5 minutes from the Reebok Stadium and the M61. Students travel from many parts of the North West for English tuition,… Read More »English Tuition in Bolton, Bury and Manchester!
This poem, ‘You‘ begins Carol Ann Duffy’s sequence of love poems, unambiguoulsy called Rapture! Aliosn Ridyard’s commentary on this blog is excellent and discusses the techniques by which Duffy communicates… Read More »Carol Ann Duffy's You from Rapture: Commentary
CAROL ANN DUFFY (1955–present) In Mrs Tilscher’s Class You could travel up the Blue Nile with your finger, tracing the route while Mrs Tilscher chanted the scenery. Tana. Ethiopia. Khartoum.… Read More »In Mrs Tilscher's Class
Duffy’s “Crush” One of the consequences of the publication of Carol Ann Duffy’s Rapture has been—at least so far as I’m concerned—to review her early love lyrics. The reception… Read More »Crush by Carol Ann Duffy reviewed by Barry Wood
