China through Chinese literature
Glad to highlight a new audiobook company dedicated to bringing modern Chinese fiction to a wider audience through new and...
The secret of surprise
A pithy tip from one of the masters, succinctly conveyed in Clive James' translation. Â It's certainly given me food for...
Hoovering up ideas
There's such a zest to this account of the Armenian approach to dealing with invaders: translate everything you can get...
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...
Thunderbolts are go (ii)
The Arcadian king, Lycaon, doubting that it is Jove who has come to visit, does a stomach-churning test. Note Hughes'...
Light-stream interplay
The dancing dust of a sunbeam also glimmering as a mirror hall for fireflies. What a bright image.Â
Too much information
Dante anticipated the age in which we are drowned in facts, fake and otherwise. Note his observation of our being...
The first golden age
Continuing his retelling of the myth of Creation, Ted Hughes reminds us of a first golden age...
The innocent forest
A wonderful image of splendid towering trees innocent in their virgin forests, untouched by axe, unaware of their future forging...
The original fake news
'Fake news' is nothing but a new term for the age old curses of rumour or propaganda, so it's good...
Alighting stars
I like this hint of stars being both lit up and alighting in their permanent positions in the firmament, after...
As the falcon flies
Even the rhythm of this simile conveys something of a great bird's single, confident swoop to land precisely on a...
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