Posts filed under “literature”.
Milligan and Murphy – a review
Perhaps this is as good a place as any, as our heroes wend their way towards the future, to describe in some small detail the countryside through which they trudged. If I were to provide you with a simple-to-understand expression to describe where Lissoy was, then ‘in the middle of nowhere’ would be fairly accurate: [...]
New Review for Winged with Death
Winged With Death by John Baker, Flambard Press (2009) ISBN 978-1906601027, 291pp £8.98 ‘It was 1972 and I was eighteen years old. I had jumped ship and watched while she sailed away.’ The narrator’s account of his decade in Uruguay gets off to a running start. A young man in a remote country is a [...]
Cock and Bull by Will Self
These two postmodern stories from 1993 have remained under my radar until now. Will Self writes irony and challenges gender roles along the way with immaculately timed black humour. The lead character in each of these stories wakes up to something of an anatomical surprise. In the first story, Cock, a woman grows a penis; [...]
A Poem by Mary Oliver
When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps his purse shut; when death comes like the measle pox; when death comes like an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want to step through the [...]
An Ode from Horace
Ah, Ligurinus, Still cruel and swaggering with the gifts of Venus, The day’s not far When, stealing unawares, a beard will mar That debonair Insouciance; that shoulder-rippling hair Fall; and the skin Now pinker than the pinkest petal in A bed of roses Suffer a rude and bristling metamorphosis. You’ll say, ‘Alas’ (Seeing the changed [...]
