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Bookish Birthdays: Anne Sexton

Posted in Books, Poetry, tagged , , on November 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

My tribute to the American poet, Anne Sexton, born on this day in 1924, is published at For Books’ Sake

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Bookish Birthdays: Emily Brontё

Posted in Books, Fiction, History, Poetry, tagged , on July 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »

One of my favourite authors, Emily Jane Brontё, was born on this day, July 30th,  in 1818. Read my birthday profile over at For Books’ Sake More Brontё-related posts here

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Lives Like Loaded Guns

Posted in Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, tagged , , , on June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Two new reviews posted at For Books’ Sake this week: Lyndall Gordon’s literary biography, Lives Like Loaded Guns – Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds, and Between Shades of Gray, a novel for young adults set in wartime Eastern Europe, by first-time author Ruta Sepetys.

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Emergency Verse

Posted in Books, Brighton, Poetry, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The UK’s general election of May 2010 produced no overall majority, and for the first time since 1945, a coalition was formed by the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats, with David Cameron and Nick Clegg taking the roles of Prime Minister and Deputy. Chancellor George Osborne swiftly proposed the most radical cuts to public services [...]

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Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

Posted in Books, Marilyn Monroe, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Writing, tagged , on November 7, 2010 | 10 Comments »

Of the millions of words that have been devoted to Marilyn Monroe, few of them were written or said by the woman herself. Only a few interviews with Marilyn herself are still in print, and most of the people who knew her well are now gone. A small handful of books can claim a direct [...]

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Charlotte Brontё’s Corset

Posted in Books, Poetry, tagged , , on August 25, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Earlier this month I took a holiday in the North-West of England, where I first lived as a student nearly twenty years ago. The trip was partly a sentimental journey, and partly for research as the novel I’m currently writing is set in the area. One of the places I always wanted to visit while [...]

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Grace of the Gamblers

Posted in Books, Brighton, History, Poetry, tagged , , , on May 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Grace O’Malley (Gráinne Ní Mháille) was born in Mayo circa 1530, daughter of a chieftain. She became Ireland’s most renowned sea-raider, and her battles with Sir Richard Bingham, the Governor of Connacht, are the stuff of legend. In 1593, when English colonisation was at its peak, Grace famously negotiated with Elizabeth I at Greenwich Palace. [...]

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Sylvia Plath and Marilyn

Posted in Marilyn Monroe, Poetry, tagged , on January 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Sylvia Plath once dreamed of Marilyn Monroe, as a 1959 diary entry shows: Marilyn Monroe appeared to me last night in a dream as a kind of fairy godmother. I spoke almost in tears of how much she and Arthur Miller meant to us (her husband and herself) although they could, of course, not know [...]

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