31 Tuesday Mar 2015
Posted in Books
For Kipling Day, a poem from the 1909 collection Actions and Reactions. It goes with the story Garm – a Hostage.
If you ever had and loved a dog – or a cat, for that matter – then you know what this is all about… Continue reading
07 Saturday Feb 2015
Posted in Stories
A little Kipling today – it’s his year, after all.
I love The Recall, a little poem taken from Action and Reactions – one of many collections of short stories and poetry.
It is a small, dream-like thing of home-coming – even when you don’t know you are coming home – and the power of place, something that, according to Peter Ackroyd, is deeply rooted in English imagination. Continue reading
