The taste of brass
You can feel it can't you - that cold-surface metallic sensation in your mouth?
John Keats fell in love and...
As vindictive as…
Apologies to all camels if this sullies your good character, but I liked the simile and had fun finding a...
Sleep and scimitars
What a keen metaphor for the bright light piercing of shut-eye night.
See the bestellar review complete with a...
The influence of place
Few writers I know address the meaning of place better than Adam Nicolson, particularly in terms of rootedness or attraction...
Eggs like a Jackson Pollock
Are puffin eggs like a Jackson Pollock, or did Jackson Pollock find some inspiration in the designs of eggs?
We...
From Troy to Chicago
Some of the Greek warriors occasionally behave like gangsters, so I liked this 1920s image of a gangster in a...
An aching loss
The occasional ache of something long lost - Leigh Fermor's likening it to an old wound; more less healed, but...
A look of love
This is Lisbeth, mother of Adam Bede, looking closely at the beloved face of Dinah, who would become her daughter-in-law. ...
Floating on your buoyant prejudices
As I read the abridged version of Thoreau's journals encompassing only one tenth of the original 7,000 pages, I can't...
As pale as …
Henry Williamson is a master of metaphor and simile, and his slim book Tarka the Otter is as densely scattered with...
Barriers to hope
I like this metaphor in which a looming shape in the fog evokes a barrier to hope. That said, may...
Sweet-running river
Flowing like the sweet-running river it evokes, a meandering metaphor for Hector's strength and movement, likened to a thoroughbred horse...
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