Thoughts on the physiology of reading
As conveyors of ideas and knowledge, books have a wondrous physicality to them, more individual the longer they are in...
A coral coinage
What an exuberant description of wild strawberries! A coral coinage with the berries singing not only in batches, but in...
Thick-fingered roads
A chunky junction? Wide roads converging on a roundabout, an original description of a transport node.
Source: Osip Mandelstam,...
Thick-walled word
While I like this idea, I can’t quite imagine a ‘thick-walled’ word.  Trying some free association: Glop? Blather?  Is it...
An event, a happening
Mandelstam lived in a brutal place and time, costing him years of freedom and ultimately, his life. Â All the...
Conversation as coffee
Likening conversation to ‘thick black coffee’ which you might have on the table in front of you, and you might...
Milky metaphors
Milky quietude sounds like something to be welcomed, whereas a curdling whey of silence is to be escaped. I like...
Poetry as plough
Elsewhere Mandelstam connects poetry to recall. Here it is a time-turning plough, bringing the deepest layers of time to the...
Poetry as recall
Slowly I’m building a collection of quotations defining poetry. With a few more in the bag, we can lay them...
A mess of broken eggs
An arresting image for catastrophe – an omelette. Too prosaic? Smashing eggs can certainly make a hell of a mess,...
Pink of old roses
Musty pink makes me think of an old breed of faded rose, or a soft-worn damask, or one of the...
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