Dancing light, rippling reflections
Having occasionally lain in bed practically hypnotised by the dappling and dancing of light bouncing from water up to ceiling,...
All the details of the tree
A fine injunction to a writer, first to face truth and then to give unhidden all the details. Neither is...
Chain of consequences
Grossman's novel deals with a man who returns to 'normal' life after 30 years in the gulag. Here he shows...
High-perched asylum
In his acknowledgements, Leigh Fermor thanks a number of people for 'kindness and haven during restless literary displacements', and it...
Of words, wording and eternity
Part of my blogophyte journey has been to learn about some of the technical workings of the online world, among...
This I do not know
One of the best books I read last year is The Russian Journal of John Steinbeck. He spent a month...
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...
The aim of aimlessness
This made me think - surrendering to aimlessness to write poetry (and other things? A good letter? A story?). Perhaps...
In praise of idiosyncratic spelling
Those were the days, when you spelled, or spelt, or spellt, a word as you saw fit. Then the spelling...
Technique as dousing
In discussing the technique of writing, Seamus Heaney conjures a water diviner as a metaphor. At first glance far-fetched, as...
As healthy as …
A bracing, surprising simile for presenting something as a picture of health and wholesomeness. Here it is about reading material,...
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