A couple of weeks ago I was in London. A sweltering, tourist crowded, sweaty, dirty London. I jumped on the…
Guest Post by Alice-Catherine Jennings, Poet, Reader, Medievalist
Epic-mania in the Global Reading Group: How It All Began We all have those books, right? The ones that are…
Epics on a Global scale
‘Milton’s Paradise Lost and Seamus Heaney’s Translation of Beowulf have been neglected. My new challenge is to work on finishing…
Poetry Challenge 2013
The poetry challenge A year ago today I was planning my poetry challenge. As a reluctant poetry reader the challenge…
The curious world of Bizarro
A couple of weeks ago I read a copy of Chris Kelso’s A Message from the Slave State and experienced…
What I talk about when I talk about the pain in my bones
A wee while ago I read Haruki Murakami’s inspiring memoir ‘What I talk about when I talk about running‘ for…
