13 Thursday Apr 2017
Posted 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
11 Thursday Feb 2016
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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
I 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
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
