Chatteration
'Again there was a sudden chatteration of gulls.' Â A fine description of the confabulations of sea-gulls when they get...
The timbre of a voice
Voices are evanescent and yet they can stay with us all our lives; I can still 'hear' the voices of...
Chopping and changing
I like how Logue places the words so they don’t flow smoothly but themselves wallop, slap back, chop and change,...
Synaesthetic sound
An early evocation of synaesthesia - I like Dante's portrayal of a voice in terms of visibility. This is from...
Parrot-bright shrillness
A lovely mix of visual and aural, with the shrillness of light and colour also evoking a parrot's cry. Â
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Voices like the smell of cooking
You can hear the insistent but indefinite sound of speech penetrating the flimsy walls of a badly built tenement like...
A shire-sized dust-sheet
The tearing of a dust-sheet isn’t an obvious sound to describe the dis-scabbarding of a Greek sword, and then Logue...
Singing a stone-song
Water is the principal element in Williamson's assiduously researched, powerfully imagined life of an otter. I loved the idea of...
A booming voice
A novel pair of similes to convey a loud, hard voice, including those weighted final syllables. Â
From pantheon to palate
A piled up commentary of poets on poets: Heaney on Mandelstam on Dante. Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), who died in uncertain...
A piercing sound
A high, piercing pipe sound likened to midges harassing the air, this simile makes me think of the horrifying tsssssssss...
Of sound and silence
A startling description of silence, likened to emulsified sound.Â
Silence, after all, is only sound in emulsion.Â
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