Carrie began the walk home. It was late evening, her favourite time of the day. She was fond of darkness and silence. The night was full of both, and consequently empty of the loud, ugly colours which dominated the daytime. The darkness meant that the quieter colours, like the wind trailing pale blue ribbons around the chimney pots, or […]
Archives for August 2014
I Followed the Moth
We were never reckless; We crept up to the little shed in the garden, drew forth the broken barbecue…
The Water Way
Children of the elements, we learned fire,
How it was cornered and drawn out;
And water, the balance, the dangers…
Nostalgia
I like to be inside my head where I can manipulate the world and move things and events so that I have a sense of control.
IS ‘NOSTALGIA’ A BROMIDE?
I can’t find a good word to say for nostalgia … and if I detected it in my own work, I’d know that something had gone severely awry. I’d need to set fire to it.
Nostalgia and its Discontents
This piece is featured from this year’s Worlds festival. Also on site, from the provocations we have: Akhil Sharma’s ‘Nostalgia’, James Scudamore’s ‘The Ecstasy of Impossibility’, and Denise Riley’s ‘Is Nostalgia a Bromide?’. Finally, as a special treat, we have Bae Su-Ah’s meditation on the experience of translating W. G. Sebald into Korean, ‘After Sebald […]
The Ecstasy Of Impossibility: A Provocation
When I look back on the intensity of my early reading experience, I envy myself.
Worlds 2014
Introducing a selection of content for your delectation from this year’s Worlds 2014 salon.
The Tightrope Walkers by David Almond
‘The Tightrope Walkers’ is the second book for adults by UEA alumnus David Almond and has recently been published by Penguin. David (pictured) graduated from UEA with a BA in English and American Studies in 1973 and published ‘Sleepless Nights’, his first novel for children, in 1985. Among his numerous other titles for children, ‘Skellig’, […]
Three Poems
the king of love is dead, the king of love is dead, the king of love