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Ink and Light (and a Ship in the Air)

13 Thursday Apr 2017

Posted by la Clarina in Poetry

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birthday, Lightenings, National Portrait Gallery, Poetry, portrait, Ross Wilson, seamus heaney, Squarings

by Ross Wilson, ink and watercolour, 1994

It would have been Seamus Heaney’s birthday, today… So I thought I’d remember him with one of Ross Wilson’s sketched portraits and a poem – one of those miracles of thought, light, questions, wonder, and images so vivid you can taste them on your tongue. Continue reading →

Imagined Lives

11 Thursday Feb 2016

Posted by la Clarina in Books, History, Stories

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Alexander McCall Smith, Joanna Trollope, John Banville, Julian Fellowes, Minette Walters, National Portrait Gallery, Sarah Singleton, Tarnya Cooper, Terry Pratchett, Tracy Chevalier

ImaginedLivesBWI discovered the existence of this little book back in December, and ordered it on the instant… After which it took more than a month for it to arrive – thanks to the dismal Italian post service – but it was well worth the wait. Imagined Lives: Portraits of Unknown People– published by the National Portrait Gallery in 2011, is truly a gem.

Just imagine a museum putting together eight novelists and fourteen portraits of unknown sitters from the XVIth and XVIIth century – and commissioning short fictional character sketches… Continue reading →

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