#Karen McCarthy Woolf

[martyncrucefix]

Impressions of the TS Eliot Prize Readings 2025

I’ve always enjoyed Ladybird spotting the ways poets present themselves in a reading situation. Last night’s TS Eliot prize readings at the Festival Hall was a grand opportunity for such a pursuit. Ten readers in a row. Here are a few jotted down impressions, gleaned from the on-line version of the show. Before you crucify me for such poor, ill-informed critical judgements, I do hereby declare I…

[baddingtonbitch]

i was tagged by @enyathatsmyname to share 6 books i'd like to read this year so I'm just picking six from my shelf that i got late last year but haven't gotten around to yet. thanks for tagging me! <3

i just started paint it black and i like it so far, but i think i'm most looking forward to liarmouth because i've never read anything by john waters before and i'm keen to see how he writes compared to how he directs. karen mccarthy woolf is the only other author here i haven't read yet so she's also near the top of the list, and le guin and moshfegh are lower down because i read some of their other books more recently.

i tag @eatyourcandyfloss @candiedspit and anyone who sees this and feels like doing it, lemme see your book recs 👀

[thelinkfactory]

The best recent poetry – review roundup

[hayingsang]

What I read in 2022

A little late. 2023 to follow soon.

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Ying Shih Yü, Chinese History and Culture, Volume 1

Yuen Yuen Ang, China’s Gilded Age

Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women

Stephan Körner, Kant

Alexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts, Vol 5

Leonard Susskind & George Hrabovsky, Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

Frank Dikotter, Mao’s Great Famine

Alexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts, Vol 6

George Orwell, 動物農莊（港豬版）

Tom Hopkins, Sales Prospecting for Dummies

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Paul Gilroy, There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack

Kenn Amdahl, There Are No Electrons

Gianfranco Poggi, The Development of the Modern State

Ehrhard Bahr & Ruth Goldschmidt Kunzer, Georg Lukacs

Gianfranco Poggi, Forms of Power

Thomas Gordon, Parental Effectiveness Training

Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

James Fok, Financial Cold War

Angela Carter, The New Eve

Elizabeth Strout, My Name is Lucy Barton

Ying Shih Yü, Chinese History and Culture, Volume 2

Bill Hayton, The Invention of China

Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind

林匡正, 香港足球史

Karl Ulrich & Lele Sang, Winning in China

Harry Morgan, Sunny Places for Shady People

Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle

Naomi Standen (ed), Demystifying China

Angela Carter, Wise Children

Elizabeth Strout, The Burgess Boys

John Gribbin, Get a Grip on Physics

Chris Waring, An Equation for Every Occasion

Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

Mary McCarthy, Birds of America

Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps

Lisa Taddeo, Three Women

Hon Lai-chiu, The Kite Family

Jim Breithaupt, Physics

John Gribbin, Seven Pillars of Science

John Gribbin, Six Impossible Things

Barry Lopez, Horizon

Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kittridge

Elizabeth Strout, Anything is Possible

Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

Mike Goldsmith, Waves

Monica Ali, Untold Story

Catherine Merridale, Ivan’s War

Jessica Andrews, Saltwater

Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature

AM Homes, May We Be Forgiven

Gaia Vince, Adventures in the Anthropocene

Ho-fung Hung, City on the Edge

Richard Feynman, QED

Fredric Raichlen, Waves

Angela Carter, The Magic Toyshop

Karen Cheung, The Impossible City

Adam Tooze, The Deluge

Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

Sean Carroll, The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

Louisa Lim, The Indelible City

Gavin Pretor-Pinney, The Wave Watcher’s Companion

Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction

Adam Tooze, Shutdown

Annie Ernaux, A Frozen Woman

Ursula Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

Virgina Woolf, The Waves

Ursula Le Guin, Tehanu

Ursula Le Guin, The Telling

Gaia Vince, Nomad Century

Janna Levin, How the Universe Got Its Spots

Lara Alcock, Mathematics Rebooted

Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems

Emily St John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

Anon, 伊索傳 & 驢仔

Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky

Emily St John Mandel, Station Eleven

Gary Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order

Bruno Mansoulié, All Of Physics (Almost) In 15 Equations

[violettesiren]

My love is an aviary of small birds and I must learn to leave the door ajar . . .

Are you the sparrow who landed when I sat at a slate table sewing lettuces?

Webbs Wonder, Lollo Rosso, English Cos . . . Swift and deft you flit and peck peck

quick as the light that constitutes your spirit. Yes, you were briefer than Neruda’s octobrine.

So much rain that night. Our room is an ocean where swallows dive. The bubble bursts

too soon, too late, too long: all sorts of microscopia swim upstream, float in on summer’s storm.

The tenor of your heart is true as a tuning fork struck —and high! My love is the bird who flies free.

An Aviary of Small Birds by Karen McCarthy Woolf

[montair]

Poetry is

what the sea sings to the

last insatiable human

who thinks he’s the only one with a voice

Karen McCarthy Woolf, Ars Poetica 101, 2017

(2019)

[apollonysus]

& Because

a string of unilluminated dragonflies dangles from the ceiling

our screens glow like fireflies at opposite ends of the flat, one of us facing south, the other north,

the anglepoise reflected like a moon in the cracked glass– yes, it’s cracked but it endures, the empty spaces I crave are filled with dust dating back to the nineteenth century

& because I can’t forget the torrent of the M6 as we switched lanes on the way back from the retrospective where we took photos of you standing by a painting of your mother in 1975, how she stared out of a window, determined not to smile and of course your hair is the colour of her hair, and the gallery walls are white

& because roses aren’t what they used to be, so few are fragrant and only a fraction of those that survive the shivery hold unfurl into fullness, their thorns bred out like pips from a watermelon

& because water is no longer sacred, our rivers run like sores and mountain streams are bottled, sold, binned then spun into the gyres of the Pacific

-Karen McCarthy Woolf

[poem-today]

A poem by Karen McCarthy Woolf

An Aviary of Small Birds  

My love is an aviary of small birds and I must learn to leave the door ajar…

Are you the sparrow who landed when I sat at a slate table sowing lettuces?

Webbs Wonder, Lollo Rosso, English Cos… Swift and deft you flit and peck peck

quick as the light that constitutes your spirit. Yes, you were briefer than Neruda’s octobrine.

So much rain that night. Our room is an ocean where swallows dive. The bubble bursts

too soon, too late, too long: all sorts of microscopia swim upstream, float in on summer’s storm.

The tenor of your heart is true as a tuning fork struck —and high! My love is the bird who flies free.

Karen McCarthy Woolf

Listen to Karen McCarthy Woolf read her poem (at 14:45).

[fromeden-ep]

Made a whole Tomes and Tea photo and forgot to post it, so it’s happening late.

As I hit midterms of my first semester as a English Lit major, here’s what I’m reading:

- Don’t Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor for personal reading

-Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf for Advanced British Literature

-Satin Island by Tom McCarthy for Intro to Literary Studies

-Persuasion by Jane Austen for Great Books

@bibliophilicwitch

[rivercamerasure]

Call Out for erasure poems

On the 21st June citizens will be holding a ceremony to declare the rights of the River Cam. I’m poet and activist Alice Willitts, inviting you to write erasure poems to mark the occasion. Erasures because this poetic form symbolically reflects the erasure of the precious chalk stream habitat the city’s water is drawn from. Erasure because by taking words away, we regenerate corporate text into language that is alive with meaning. The text we will be erasing is the foreword to the Anglian Water’s Pollution Incident Reduction Plan 2020-2025 (text is below).

If you’re new to erasures, a good guide to writing erasure poetry can be found here: https://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/erasure-poems-a-challenge-with-karen-mccarthy-woolf-and-julia-bird/

This is a collective act, working together on the same text, to reveal the many voices that care about the River Cam, about water quality and about putting nature on an equal footing with commerce when providing water to citizens. My intention is to collate our erasure poems and in the first instance send them to the Environment Agency and Anglian Water. It may be appropriate to read some of the erasures at the ceremony on the 21st so please indicate in your submission if that’s something you’d like to do yourself, or have your poem read out. In large part, what I can do with the poems will depend on what you all send in but I’ll keep you informed as it develops.

Submissions until noon on 15th June 2021 to Alice Willitts RiverCamErasure@gmail.com

All medias and formatting accepted: word, pages, PDF, RTF, plain text. Please send photographs of original artwork as jpegs.

If you have any questions on the erasure callout contact poet Alice Willitts RiverCamErasure@gmail.com

Please use this text for erasure:

As a monopoly provider of water and water recycling services to almost seven million people across the east of England and Hartlepool, we have a clear-cut duty to safeguard – and indeed to enhance – our environment. One of the most important contributions we can make is to ensure that our activity does not contribute to environmental pollution. In words borrowed from the medical profession: first do no harm. Caring for our environment is so fundamental to the way we operate at Anglian Water that we have built our commitment into the fabric of the company, in 2019 becoming the first major utility to change our Articles of Association to enshrine public interest for the long term. So I want to be clear from the outset that we regard any pollution incident taking place in our region as one too many, and we are wholeheartedly committed to reaching zero pollutions. Customer expectations in this area are rightly high and we must rise to meet them. Yet we acknowledge that elimination of all pollutions cannot be achieved overnight. First, we must address the challenges we face, which are recognised in our 25-year Strategic Direction Statement, and factored into our long-term plans for Anglian Water. Paramount among these are climate change and population growth, which both have an influence on pollution incidents. Our region is one of the fastest growing in the country, with rapid development leading to greater demand, and more water than ever passing through our recycling centres. The extremes of rainfall we are seeing as a result of climate change can cause huge and unpredictable volumes of excess water to enter our systems, while droughts can also impact water quality as waterbodies, and the biodiversity they support, become more sensitive when levels drop. The landscape of our region has a part to play too – low-lying, largely rural, and with slow-flowing rivers, meaning that any pollution that does occur can be slow to clear. However, we recognise that external challenges are not the only causes of pollution in our region, and our plan addresses the role our people, our customers and of course our infrastructure assets can play in putting a stop to pollutions. Preventing pollution, and tackling it where it occurs, forms part of the daily dialogue at operational meetings at all levels. When incidents do occur, root cause analysis takes place to ensure we learn the lessons from what has happened; I personally oversee the findings from all investigations into every single serious pollution. For the first time, this plan sets out tangible and achievable steps to help us towards our goal of eradicating pollution incidents from our region, and gives us the tools we need to measure and track our progress. It’s also a document designed to be shared with our customers and other interested parties, to show that we are being transparent both about the issues, and about what we are doing to address them. It sets out how we will tackle pollutions via a nine-step model which includes a range of measures, from innovative early warning processes and preventative measures, through to customer education programmes and training for colleagues. We are committed to sharing what we learn through carrying out the plan with our fellow water companies in a spirit of openness and transparency and, in return, to learning from examples of best practice elsewhere. By working together we can drive real progress, protecting and enhancing our environment for current and future generations to enjoy.

If you’d prefer to work from the original source, here’s the reference.

https://www.anglianwater.co.uk/contentassets/0e50eef7ef2a4630b31220d3351193d7/pollution-incident-reduction-plan-2020-2025.pdf

I have been told that The Universal Declaration of Rights and the reasons for this acton will be posted on https://www.friendsofthecam.org in the next few days.

[theatredirectors]

268 Directors and the end of the blog

This post marks the end of the Ask a Director experiment. I’m so grateful to all who have contributed, supported and engaged with it over the past six and a half years. 

This blog was started at a time when I felt incredibly alone in the directing field. I had always been taught that a director operates solo, that it was a lonely career and above all, it was based on scarcity. This was a style of working and living that didn't fit for me. I wanted to talk to other directors about their practice and thoughts about the field, both national and international. This blog was started as a way to connect, to uplift other directors and to create a conversation about the changing field and practices. 

It's surpassed all of these goals and brought me more joy than I can name. 

I'm now at a moment where my practice and advocacy are taking different and exciting paths and it's time for me to put this site to bed. I remain committed to uplifting other directors, to talking about the practice, to flattening hierarchies, to opening doors for new ways of working, and leading rehearsal rooms, companies, and classrooms away from silos and vacuums. Featuring these 268 different directors was just the beginning. 

I encourage you all to hire them (and others), advocate for them (and others) and choose to work in a system that values connection and generosity. 

Abhishek Majumdar

Adam Fitzgerald

Alice Stanley

Aliza Shane

Amanda McRaven

Amy Corcoran

Amy Jephta

Anisa George

Ana Margineau

Andrew Scoville

Anna Stromberg

Anne Cecelia Haney

Ariel Francoeur

Arpita Mukherjee

Ashley Hollingshead

Ashley Marinaccio

Andrew Neisler

Beng Oh

Ben Randle

Ben Stockman

Benjamin Kamine

Beth Lopes

Bo Powell

Bogdan Georgescu

Bonnie Gabel

Brandon Ivie

Brandon Woolf

Brian Hashimoto

Cait Robinson

Caitlin Ryan O’Connell

Caitlin Sullivan

Catie Davis

Cara Phipps

Carol Ann Tan

Carsen Joenk

Chari Arespacochaga

Cheryl Faraone

Chloe Treat

Christin Eve Cato

Christine Zagrobelny

Christopher Diercksen

Colette Robert

Colleen Hughes

Cyndy Marion

Dado Gyure

Dan Rothenberg

Daniel Irizarry

Danielle Ozymandias

Danny Sharon

Dara Malina

David Charles

Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li

Derek Spencer 

Donald Brenner

Doug Oliphant

Eamon Boylan

Elena Araoz

Emily Lyons

Emma Miller

Eric Kildow

Eric Wallach

Eric Powell Holm

Estefania Fadul

Evelina Stampa

Evren Odcikin

Evi Stamatiou

Francesca Montanile Lyons

Gabriel Vega Weissman

Gian Marco Riccardo Lo Forte 

Graham Schmidt

Gregg Wiggans

Hannah Ryan

Hannah Wolf

Heather Bagnall

Horia Suru

Ilana Becker

Ilana Ransom Toeplitz

Illana Stein

Ioanna Katsarou

Ioli Andreadi

Irina Abraham Chigiryov

Iris Sowlat

Isaac Klein

J Paul Nicholas

Jack Tamburri

Jaclyn Biskup

Jacob Basri

Jake Beckhard

Jaki Bradley

Jamie Watkins

Javier Molina

Jay Stern

Jay Stull

Jenna Rossman

Jenna Worsham

Jennifer Chambers

Jenny Bennett

Jenny Reed

Jeremy Bloom

Jeremy Pickard

Jerrell Henderson

Jess Hutchinson

Jess Shoemaker

Jesse Jou

Jessi D Hill

Jessica Burr

Jessica Holt

Jillian Carucci

Joanne Zipay

Jo Cattell

John Michael Diresta

John Kurzynowski

Joe Hedel

Jonathan Munoz-Proulx

Jose Zayas

Josh Kelley

Josh Sobel

Joshua Kahan Brody

Joshua William Gelb

Julia Sears

Justin Schlabach

Kareem Fahmy

Karen Christina Jones

Kate Bergstrom

Kate Hopkins

Kate Jopson

Kate Moore Heaney

Katherine M. Carter

Katherine Wilkinson

Kathy Gail MacGowan

Katie Chidester

Kendall Cornell 

Kendra Augustin

Kholoud Sawaf

Kimberly Faith Hickmann

Kim Weild

KJ Sanchez

Knud Adams

Kristin Marting

Kristin McCarthy Parker

Kristin Skye Hoffman

Kristy Chambrelli

Kristy Dodson

KT Shorb

Kyle Metzger

Kylie M. Brown

Larissa Fasthorse

Larissa Lury

Laura Brandel

Laura Steinroeder

Lauren Hlubny

Lauren Keating

Lavina Jadhwani

Jenn Haltman

Leta Tremblay

Lila Rachel Becker

Lillian Meredith

Lily Riopelle

Lindsey Hope Pearlman

Lisa Rothe

Lisa Sanaye Dring

Liz Thaler

Lori Wolter Hudson

Lucie Tiberghien

Luke Comer

Luke Tudball

Lyndsay Burch

Lynn Lammers

Mallory Catlett

Manon Manavit

Margarett Perry

Maridee Slater

Marina Bergenstock

Marti Lyons

Martin Jago

Matt Cosper

Matt Ritchey

Max Hunter

Megan Sandberg-Zakian

Megan Weaver

Meghan Finn

Melissa Crespo

Melody Erfani

Michael Alvarez

Michael T. Williams

Michaela Escarcega

Michelle Tattenbaum

Mimi Barcomi

Miranda Haymon

Molly Beach Murphy

Molly Clifford

Molly Noble

Morgan Gould

Morgan Green

Murielle Borst-Tarrant

Nana Dakin

Natalie Novacek

Neal Kowalsky

Nell Bang-Jensen

Nick Benacerraf

Noa Egozi

Norah Elges

Normandy Sherwood

Olivia Lilley

Orly Noa Rabinyan

Oscar Mendoza

Pablo Paz

Padraic Lillis 

Patrick Walsh

Pete Danelski

Pirronne Yousefzadeh

Portia Krieger

Rachel Karp

Rachel Wohlander

Randolph Curtis Rand

Raz Golden

Rebecca Cunningham

Rebecca Martinez

Rebecca Wear

Renee Phillippi

Renee Yeong

Rich Brown

Rick St. Peter

Robert Schneider

Ryan Anthony Nicotra

Sammi Cannold

Sammy Zeisel

Sanaz Ghajar

Sara Holdren

Sara Lyons

Sara Rademacher

Sarah Elizabeth Wansley

Sarah Hughes

Sarah M. Chichester

Sarah Rose Leonard

Sash Bischoff

Scarlett Kim

Seonjae Kim

Seth Pyatt

Sharifa Elkady

Shaun Patrick Tubbs

Sherri Eden Barber

Simon Hanukai

Sophia Watt

Suchan Vodoor

Stephen Cedars

Steven Kopp

Steven Wilson

Talya Klein

Tana Siros

Tara Ahmadinejad

Tara Cioletti

Tara Elliott

Tatiana Pandiani

Taylor Reynolds

TerryandtheCuz

Tommy Schoffler

Tracy Bersley

Trevor Biship

Tyler Mercer

Wednesday Sue Derrico

Will Dagger

Will Davis

Will Detlefsen

Will Steinberger

Yojiro Ichikawa

Yoni Oppenheim

Zi Alikhan

Zoya Kachardurian

[adambeyoncelowe]

The World Reimagined

I'm pleased to announce the publication of The World Reimagined! I edited this anthology for The World Reimagined project, and it features a stellar line up, including Anthony Joseph, Belinda Zhawi, Benjamin Zephaniah, Cheryl Martin, Connor Allen, Curmiah Lisette, Dorothea Smartt, Ella Otomewo, Eric Ngalle Charles, Henry Stone, John Agard, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Kadija Sesay, Keisha Thompson, Khadijah Ibrahiim, Malika Booker, Marvin Thompson, Mike Garry, Nick Makoha, Otis Mensah, Poetra Asantewa, Raymond Antrobus, Sea Sharp, Shara McCallum, Shirley May, Shivanee Ramlochan, Tanya Shirley, Vanessa Kisuule and Yomi Sode.

Free copies are going to schools and anyone else can buy a copy for £15.

Buy your copy here: https://theworldreimagined.myshopify.com/products/the-world-reimagined-a-poetic-journey-of-discovery

[quoteoftheweekblog]

https://ragingfluff.wordpress.com/2018/03/03/snow-is-general-all-over-ireland/

QUOTE OF THE WEEK 31/1/22 - JOHN BANVILLE (AND JAMES JOYCE AND ‘ULYSSES’)

‘ “ Snow is general all over Ireland.”

“Is it?"

"It’s a quotation - never mind.” ‘ (Banville, 2021, p.213).

REFERENCE

Banville, J. (2021 [2020] ) ‘Snow’. London: Faber and Faber.

*****

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAMES JOYCE

140 YEARS SINCE HIS BIRTH ON 2 FEBRUARY 1882

PLUS

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ‘ULYSSES’ - JAMES JOYCE

100 YEARS ON 2 FEBRUARY (FIRST PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM ON JOYCE’S 40th BIRTHDAY)

*****

CONGRATULATIONS 2022

A.A. MILNE - HAPPY BIRTHDAY - 140

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/673632775448985600/quote-of-the-week-17122-jane-fallon-i-hate

T.S. ELIOT’S ‘THE WASTE LAND’ - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY - 100

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/674272563943342080/quote-of-the-week-24122-ann-cleeves-and-ts

VIRGINIA WOOLF - HAPPY BIRTHDAY - 140

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/674272563943342080/quote-of-the-week-24122-ann-cleeves-and-ts

JAMES JOYCE - HAPPY BIRTHDAY - 140

‘ULYSSES’ - JAMES JOYCE - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY - 100

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/678099403964383232/httpsragingfluffwordpresscom20180303snow-i

*****

SEE ALSO

‘ “But I remember that fine Anglo-Irish novelist, Elizabeth Bowen, saying to me once … that she felt her true place was a point smack in the middle of the Irish Sea, halfway between England and Ireland.” ‘(Banville, 2021, p.206).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-53724381

TODAY IS THE 2nd ANNIVERSARY OF THE UK LEAVING THE EU

*****

****** BREXIT

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/190623748674/quote-of-the-week-3220-brunio-vincent-we

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/190498932714/quote-of-the-week-27120-mc-beaton-why-are

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/188651426559/quote-of-the-week-281019-nigel-williams

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/188518699119/quote-of-the-week-211019-natasha-farrant

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/188516731239/quote-of-the-week-141019-ellen-wilkinson

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/188232223719/quote-of-the-week-71019-kamila-shamsie

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/188040521744/quote-of-the-week-30919-king-athelstans

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/187918296494/quote-of-the-week-23919-cormac-mccarthy

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/184998194129/quote-of-the-week-20519-raymond-chandler

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/159186100584/quote-of-the-week-%C2%BE17-bruno-vincent-if-britain

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/146548433294/quote-of-the-week-27616-henry-james-did


*****

SO LONG FAREWELL IRELAND

https://href.li/?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBMVy6tQQB8

VIDEO

***** GOODBYE EUROPE

AUSTRIA - MARIA AUGUSTA TRAPP - ‘THE STORY OF THE TRAPP FAMILY SINGERS’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/644470319786213377/quote-of-the-week-1321-maria-augusta-trapp

BELGIUM - AGATHA CHRISTIE - ‘CURTAIN: POIROT’S FINAL CASE’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/646993592173346816/quote-of-the-week-29321-agatha-christie

BULGARIA - IVAN VAZOV - ‘UNDER THE YOKE’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/647624227557605376/quote-of-the-week-5421-ivan-vazov-now-hes

CROATIA - DODIE SMITH - ‘THE STARLIGHT BARKING’ IN ‘THE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIONS’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/650159450297155584/quote-of-the-week-3521-dodie-smith-thats

REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS - CHRISTY LEFTERI - ‘A WATERMELON, A FISH AND A BIBLE’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/652677832837939200/quote-of-the-week-31521-christy-lefteri-have

CZECH REPUBLIC - MILAN KUNDERA - ‘THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/655873944561287168/quote-of-the-week-5721-milan-kundera

DENMARK - ISAK DINESEN/KAREN BLIXEN - ‘BABETTE’S FEAST’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/658317097399664640/quote-of-the-week-2821-isak-dinesen-aka-karen

ESTONIA - KONRAD CARISI - ‘BIG TROUBLE IN TALLIN’ [TALLINN]

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/662216353503166464/quote-of-the-week-6921-konrad-carisi-i

FINLAND - TOVE JANSSON - ‘THE HEMULEN WHO LOVED SILENCE’ IN ‘TALES FROM MOOMINVALLEY’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/663491485881286656/quote-of-the-week-27921-tove-jansson-once

FRANCE - LEILA SLIMANI - ‘ADELE’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/664757761140244480/httpsenwikipediaorgwikile%C3%AFlaslimani-quote 

GERMANY - ERICH KASTNER - ‘EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/669115011859398656/quote-of-the-week-291121-erich-kastner-there

GREECE - ANNE ZOUROUDI - ‘THE DEMONS OF DECEMBER - A GREEK DETECTIVE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/669735147987501056/quote-of-the-week-61221-anne-zouroudi-you

HUNGARY - BARONESS ORCZY - ‘THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL’

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/670374735365931008/quote-of-the-week-131221-baroness-orczy

*****

QUOTE OF THE WEEK 2011 - 2021

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/references

FROM THE ARCHIVE

https://quoteoftheweekblog.tumblr.com/post/190623748674/quote-of-the-week-3220-brunio-vincent-we

*****

[martyncrucefix]

How to Grow your Own Iambics Part 1

How to Grow your Own Iambics Part 1

I have been teaching 3 sessions for the Poetry School in the last few weeks. I have been contributing to the ongoing course called The Construction of the Poem which takes students through the various constituent elements that go to make up a poem. It is advertised as on ‘the history and application of formal techniques’ and my brief is to cover metrical issues. Though the course is directed more…

[theatredirectors]

250 Directors

Abhishek Majumdar

Adam Fitzgerald

Alice Stanley

Amanda McRaven

Amy Corcoran

Amy Jephta

Anisa George

Ana Margineau

Andrew Scoville

Anna Stromberg

Anne Cecelia Haney

Ariel Francoeur

Arpita Mukherjee

Ashley Hollingshead

Ashley Marinaccio

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[adambeyoncelowe]

'Adam Lowe also merges the then with the now, reworking Sappho, stories from the Bible and Babylon seamlessly, in subversive narratives, claiming them as personal and political points of protest.'