The Craft of Poetry by Lucy Newlyn
Reviewed by Rob Spence Lucy Newlyn is a intriguing literary figure. She had a career as an Oxford don, publishing well-regarded studies of Romantic poets as well as collections of…
Diary of a Bipolar Explorer by Lucy Newlyn
Reviewed by Jean Morris This is both useful and beautiful. Lucy Newlyn, recently retired Oxford professor of English literature, author of a lovely book, among others, about Dorothy and William…
William and Dorothy Wordsworth: All in Each Other by Lucy Newlyn
Reviewed by Harriet She who dwells with me, with whom I’ve livedWith such communion, that no place on earthCan ever seem a solitude to me. So wrote William Wordsworth in…
Mind and Body, Medicine, Psychology
Alter, Adam – Irresistible: Why we Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching (Mar-17) LD Benjamin, Marina – The Middlepause: On turning 50 (Aug-16) VB Bond, Michael – Wayfinding (June-20) TJ Byron,…
Books about Books, Lit Crit, Publishing, Reading & Writing
Aldridge, Mark – Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the world (Dec-20) ESL Ansell, Neil – Article: The Art of Memoir and Narrative Non-Fiction (Jan-15) Archer, Jodie & Jocker, Mark L…
Reading Cornwall
Written by Jane Carter It’s holiday reading time, so we asked a Cornish blogger to look at some of her favourite books set in Cornwall – and it also felt…