
The lovely thing about this book is that it doesn’t tell you which of the two poets wrote which poems.
The bird tile is by Mike Levy.
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The lovely thing about this book is that it doesn’t tell you which of the two poets wrote which poems.
The bird tile is by Mike Levy.

Everything I know about black and white photography, and about putting people in front of vehicles to liven up a composition, I learned from my father.

100 untimed books challenge: the challenge post
In our house Carl Sagan is a great favourite. We particularly enjoy his demolition of the ‘life on Venus’ theory, and the appearance of any logical fallacy is greeted with ‘Conclusion: dinosaurs!’
Never mind Venus, we don’t seem to have any dinosaurs in the house, but we did have some ammonites.

Julian of Norwich: my favourite mediaeval mystic, and easily the least disturbing vision of the Passion, as medieval mystics go.

I’ve only recently discovered Patrick Leigh Fermor, and won’t say much about him now because I’ve got a longer post in mind. But this book is about other countries, and about the other country that is the past – Europe of the thirties as seen on foot, and remembered from the other side of the Second World War.
The background represents some of my own wanderings.

This is the book that got me hooked on poetry. It was a birthday present from one of my godparents, and in terms of hours of enjoyment, it might well be the best present I ever had.
I thought this looked like an interesting idea – photographs of one hundred books, on no particular schedule. (My favourite sort of schedule!)
Starting small:
