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Literature Poetry

“That Old Life of Ease”: Light Reading with Alexander Voloshin

Cover of “Captain” Mayne Reid’s The Headless Horseman Reading aimlessly had me feeling like a kid again, and it reminded me of this enchanting passage from Alexander Voloshin’s On the Tracks, in which he compares his fantasies of the American Wild West, derived from adventure stories, with the reality of an immigrant’s life in  California. […]

“That Old Life of Ease”: Light Reading with Alexander Voloshin
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Literature Poetry

#Poetry Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin #1

Finish: 16.03.2024 Title: Poem: The Universe in 1300 Genre: Poetry Shortlisted for T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 Trivia: #ReadingIrelandMonth24 @ 746Books   Comment: I spent 2 hours trying to “crack this nut”. I looked everwhere and then something happened: …I read that Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin  is famous for using allusions from the bible, literature, …Greek […]

#Poetry Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin #1
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Spring time, spring feelings

Spring time, spring feelings
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Literature Poetry

Sleeping in the Forest

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Art and Photographic History

Sketches of Somerville at Sunrise

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Art and Photographic History Book Reviews

The Evocative Printmaker from Brittany

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Book Reviews Classics Film

The book behind the Hitchcock Classic

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Time for tea and interiors

https://janesketching.com/2024/03/10/vauxhall-tea-house-theatre-se11/#like-14045

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Literature Poetry

Joys Direct and Vicarious

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Cambridge Corrugations in Kilburn!