Sun-hot boulder
You can see the lamb snuggling up against the warm stone radiator. And on these sultry days of August, many...
Sun-stored summers
Tarka and other otters barely survive a particularly harsh winter, and this idea of the summer being stored away in...
Of flakes and feathers
How perfect an image for snow-flakes - like swan feathers drifting gently to the ground. Elsewhere, Williamson again uses feathers...
Star-shivery water
Tarka the Otter is a magical book and stars sparkle in the sky and the water, here shivering with them. ...
As fast as …
How fast can a pattering heart beat? As fast as water can drip before it starts dribbling. You can't quantify...
Wind like liquid glass
An astonishingly limpid description of the clarity a wind pours over a landscape.
'For two days and two nights the...
A mouth filled with eat-water
Henry Williamson's slim study of otters is a masterpiece of limpid writing and of human empathy for other species. Through...
Light-laden drops
When did you last stop to study a light-laden drop of water, seeing in it a convex-reflected cosmos? You have,...
As sharp as …
A flint-chip razor simile for a beak's sharpness. Elsewhere in Tarka we encounter birds skewering frogs through the head with their...
I wonder what you’ll do about money
A kindly concern on the part of T.E. Lawrence based on his appreciative reading of Williamson's Tarka the Otter before it...
O dandelion sun!
A big round dandelion arching the sky - what a deep yellow sun this is, and I like the 'light-smitten...
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