Roughing out poems
Hand-written notes and journals have a magic to them. Durrell is a favourite poet and his house in Greece was as...
Scobie and the sea
This quote has haunted me since I first read Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet about thirty years ago. It is still on my wall...
As homely as
What comes to mind? Apple pie? Cup of tea? Kitchen table? I found Durrell's homely simile as charming as surprising. ...
Two children, two voices
I found this a novel way of describing voices, using poetic terms.Â
Two small children: one voice...
Hangover face
Wonderful way to describe the face of a hungover man, though no doubt he felt every bit as bad as...
And this is my epic…
Listening time: under 4 minutes.
A marvelous account of a butcher bursting in to Lawrence Durrell's office during...
Podcast review – Durrell’s Reflections on a Marine Venus
Listening time: 18 minutes. Â Enjoy our celebration of another 'bestellar', Lawrence Durrell's sun-washed memoir of two joyous years spent...
Fine with wine
Gideon is one of a group of lively friends of Durrell during a wonderful two year stretch when the Brits...
Let the colour dry
An insight into technique by a superb poet, using a wonderful metaphor. Time fixes colours, in words as in paints,...
Rising and falling like …
A description of Lindos which charmed me as much for its sea-cleaned pebble paving as for its simile for undulating...
Of sound and silence
A startling description of silence, likened to emulsified sound.Â
Silence, after all, is only sound in emulsion.Â
...
A letter by boat and about a boat
This letter is magical. It is delivered by boat and announces the arrival of another boat at an assignation point.
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