Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Great Regulars: [Alfred Russel] Wallace made important journeys

to the Amazon and Indonesia, and [Anne] Cluysenaar's delicate and graceful poems (framed with quotations from Wallace and images of the animals and plants he collected) deftly explore the channels that these journeys opened up.

from Charles Bainbridge: The Guardian: Batu-Angas

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Much of [MR] Peacocke's writing is a captivating mix of everyday detail with a finely judged sense of otherness, of larger vistas suddenly opening up.

from Charles Bainbridge: The Guardian: In Praise of Aunts

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Both of these enable [Paul] Batchelor to adopt a voice surviving on the edge of things, set further and further apart not only from those around it but also from its sense of self: "I watch you wave and when you disappear/become a house where nobody lives".

from Charles Bainbridge: The Guardian: The Sinking Road

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