Pigtail prejudice
A charming example of prejudice, demonstrating its capacity to target just about anything, and with bewildering precision and disregard for...
Sea-raddled limestone
Unusual word and usage, 'raddled', and particularly as a simile for hard, grey, hole-riddled bread.Â
God protect one's teeth.Â
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Poems for my family 006 – Cavafy
This poem has been in my mental saddlebags for about a quarter of a century. I can't remember how I...
Thunderbolts are go (I)
The gods learn the price of rebellion against the supreme one. Hughes' re-telling of Ovid's tales has some spectacular thunderbolt...
Technique as dousing
In discussing the technique of writing, Seamus Heaney conjures a water diviner as a metaphor. At first glance far-fetched, as...
Poems for my family 007 – Carlos Williams
Listening time: under 3 minutes.
The lovely opening line of this poem by William Carlos Williams creates a...
The crushed herbs of the heart
An evocative olfactory metaphor for the effect of a tangle of emotions on a young man's heart. Elsewhere, Joyce uses...
Ancient travellers
Perhaps this is obvious, but it had never occurred to me in any conscious way, and I wonder how far...
Made up and yet true
A piercing rationale for the arts, if a rationale is needed. They are made up, but ...
First encounter
A first meeting between lovers comes less as an encounter with a stranger than a recognition of someone you've been...
Playfulness across the divide
Listening time: under 5 minutes.
We play with dogs and cats and some other creatures. I used to...
The story of not being able to
Steinbeck lays out the purpose of his trip to the Soviet Union with the photographer Robert Capa in 1946. This...
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