Tag: found books

  • “Introspections, the Poetry and Private World of Dorothea Herbert” by Frances Finnegan

    The Rights Of Woman, Or Fashions for the Year 93 – being the Era of Women’s literally wearing the Breeches.  – Health and Fraternity ! Whilst man is so busy asserting his Rights Shall Woman lie still without gaining new lights Our sex have been surely restrain’d enough By stiff prudish Dress and such old fahion’d…

  • “The Masque of Bread” by George Mackay Brown

    What answer would he give, now he had reached The inquisitor’s door, down seventy hungry streets, Each poorer than the last, the last a slum Rambling like nightmare round his winter feet? The Inquisitor’s door ? The walls were all blank there, But a white bakehouse with a little arch And a creaking sign..Against the…

  • A wee Chatto and Windus Almanack

    I have not decided what to do with this small almanac yet, its publication date is noted as : 1926 (re-print 1983). It’s a gem, with images Stanley Spencer later converted into quasi-religious subject-matter and it is sitting on my desk awaiting  my writing!  Maybe it’s because the thing has no evident calendrical structure and is just the names…

  • ‘Two Songs of Spring Wandering’ by Wang Wei.

    Two Songs of Spring Wandering I.   ” The silken willow wands arching the loitering river, unfold into smoky strings of leaves; The ice in the cold ravine melts into the warm air. When the glory of spring has been born again along the flower-laden paths, We shall already have heard people playing gay tunes…