Tag Archives: Literature

Sorry Nigel Farage – Talking Books loved ‘Talking France’…

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

Well, my holidays are over for 2013. Unless we win the lottery in the next few weeks I will now spend the rest of the year wishing all my friends ‘Bon Voyage’ and envying them their breaks from the daily … Continue reading →

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Love poems you wish you had written #4 – Billy Collins

Posted on February 11, 2013 by

Thus far I have taken this series of posts on love poems very seriously, largely because well, love is pretty serious isn’t it? The intensity of the experience and the joy and pain that love brings are hardly a laughing … Continue reading →

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Love poems you wish you had written #1 – David Constantine

Posted on February 3, 2013 by

I do have to mention, as I begin this post, that I was inspired by the wonderful David J Bauman over at The Dad Poet. We both love poetry and he has a wonderful reading voice – I was lucky … Continue reading →

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To be ‘a friend of Keats’ – a very Romantic circle

Posted on August 15, 2012 by

John Keats is now known as one of the greatest poets in the English language. Often included in the great ‘triad’ of younger Romantics with Shelley and Byron, his life and work has arguably retained a larger and more interested audience than either of … Continue reading →

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‘From Clapton Pond to Stamford Hill’ – landscape, literature & Pinter at the British Library

Posted on July 4, 2012 by

Yesterday I made the trip from Somerset to London to meet Sarah Whittingham, author of the wonderful Fern Fever and Wendy Wallace whose recently published The Painted Bridge is my favourite fiction book of the year so far. Although we were looking … Continue reading →

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