Completing an internship during exams at university meant I was so busy last term that I frequently questioned my sanity – hence the sparse blog postings, and my personal tragic lack of reading time. And although I am glad that my summer holidays have gloriously opened up before me, it is a little sad (though …
The Tate’s “Work of the Week” this week comes from the first of the new DLA Piper Series: Constellations which opened last week at the Tate Liverpool. It is called “Astrophotography…The Traditional Measure of Photographic Speed in Astronomy…’ by Siegfried Marx (1987)” and is by Welsh sculptor and filmmaker Cerith Wyn Evans. This huge glass …
No prizes for guessing which is the bigger pile. As a literature student, I’m only all too aware that I will never be able to read all the books I should have read, let alone doing the thing that made me go to university in the first place – that forgotten feeling, that utopian memory: reading for fun. …
So many beautiful independent cafés seem to be popping up all over the place, specialising in more rare and flavoured teas and home-made cakes – and they’re doing really well. Take one of my favourites in York, for example. Usually more of a coffee drinker myself, I thought I’d give these teas a try and …
This month, New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opened an exhibition featuring some of our best-loved video games, including Pac-Man, Tetris and Sim City 2000 – not exactly what you would expect alongside Edvard Munch’s iconic modern art piece The Scream, also currently on display at the museum. Well, according to Jonathan Jones of The …
Our mouths opened under each other, and the warmth of his sweetened throat poured into mine. I could not think, could not do anything but drink him in, each breath as it came, the soft movements of his lips. It was a miracle. The first book from my Summer Reading List is Madeline Miller’s Orange … Continue reading
This Bloomsday I am finally able to say: I have read James Joyce’s Ulysses. All of it. I loved both Dubliners and A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man (you can read more about just how much here) so I have had Ulysses in my “To Read Pile” for a very long time. Like many people before me, I had … Continue reading
In the midst of exams (hence the deplorable lack of posts recently) I re-found the simple joys of sharing literature at the York Theatre Royal’s spoken word night ‘Words and Whippets’ last Saturday. Hosted by the charmingly witty Henry Raby, this poetry evening was a showcase of talented emerging spoken word poets based in or … Continue reading
For this week’s British Academy Literature week in London (20-24th May), artist Justin Rowe is exhibiting his unique book art. Rescuing unloved books from charity shops, Rowe gives them a new lease of life by creating them in to enchanting sculptures from woodland scenes, to commissioned work commemorating the Antarctic explorations of Sir Ernest Shackleton. I particularly … Continue reading
I haven’t been blogging for too long, and a huge workload has recently forced me to be slightly less frequent in my postings, but it was a wonderful surprise to be nominated for a Liebster Award by the equally wonderful Lilith at KingLilith! So I would like to take this opportunity to thank Lilith and … Continue reading
We decided to spend the first real sunny day of the year at Standen House, West Sussex. A beautiful National Trust property, Standen is particularly famous for its outstanding Arts and Craft Movement collection. The Arts and Crafts movement was spearheaded by William Morris and was particularly popular between 1860 and 1910. The movement represented traditional craftsmanship in both … Continue reading
GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS The theme of Hunger Magazine’s latest bi-annual tome is, you guessed it: women. Not “strong women”, Eva Wiseman tells us in her brilliant contribution, but women. The aim should be that the phrase “strong woman” becomes a tautology – as unnecessary a description as “frozen ice”. The aim should be that strength is … Continue reading
