Like many readers, I have a vague and sporadic interest in poetry and like to browse favourite anthologies from time to time. I occasionally set pen to paper myself, usually when something has moved me more than usual, but only in a private way and definitely not for sharing. But on the whole I [...]
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. . . written by Tom Cunliffe, of East Sussex, England (to read more about me see my About page).
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Well we had a good week and a bit down in Cornwall. Its not an area I know at all well but was much as I expected – fabulous beaches and pretty coastal villages, and for once the weather was kind to us and we were even able to spend time paddling in the sea [...] Padstow (image from Wikimedia Commons) I am away in Cornwall for a few days and will return to resume reviewing books next week. I’ve taken Gerald Seymour’s new book, The Collaborator. I’ve read all Seymour’s books as they come out, ever since Harry’s Game which was published in 1999, and I’ve never been disappointed. [...] As an avid reader I enjoy “books about books” and this one certainly falls into that category. Imagine a couple of lovers of literature who get the opportunity to open a book-shop which only sells “good” books, those which meet a criteria of literary worth, deliberately ignoring the current literary prizes and the year’s [...] Verso have recently re-published a couple of books by John Berger and I was delighted to receive from them A Painter of Our Time and Corker’s Freedom. John Berger is a noted radical writer who famously astonished guests at the Booker Prize award party (his novel G won in 1972) when he got up and [...] Lindsay Clarke came to fame by winning the Whitbread Prize in 1989 with his novel, The Chymical Wedding. It has been a long wait for something as substantial in both scope and subject matter from this author, but The Water Theatre is every bit as complex a read as the earlier novel, weaving several themes [...] Its not been easy to keep up with the reading this week what with grand-parent duties (looking after our pleasingly book-obsessed Iris) and also visiting relatives. The most recent family visit involved a day on the River Thames in my brother in law’s boat – great fun, and appropriate for my current read [...] |
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