quiet - www.writingredux.com

Plucking chickens in Australia

One of the inventive elements of Logue’s metaphors is the way he mixes up eras, blithely planting a country called...

Elsewhere Logue uses light as the simile for silence – ‘as quiet as air’ – but I also loved this...

Another richly original simile for silence, here attributed to the noiseless movement of a rolling mist. See another silent simile...

A luxury in short supply, this 'nerve-stilling quietness', the antidote to enervating noise pollution. Wish you as much of it...

Christopher Logue’s vivid, muscular version of some episodes in the Iliad abounds with striking metaphors – I noted about 60...

This sweetly evocative opening refers to a quieter world 'long ago'. But it also evokes, for me at least, a...

Listening time: 3 minutes.

An intricate description of the effect an ancient temple can work on the spirit...

How many ways to describe quiet? This is one of the most original I have found, along with another describing the...