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ESSAY ON FOOD FOR NIGELLA ISSUE OF STYLIST MAGAZINE - DECEMBER 2011
Publication: Other Articles
Food is all the love you can eat.
Real food, like love, takes time, imagination, passion, good humour, a willingness to learn, and not too much distress over upsets.
Greedy is what we all are when not ruined by diets, disgusting food, air-brushed models, and no time.
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The memories & poems of Ted Hughes
Publication: The Guardian
A poem is a practical act of memory. When most memory is out-sourced to hard drive and smartphone, the poem releases in the reader a private memory-store, prompted but not prescribed by the poem. This is a relief. It is also a remedy for the new modern disease; Alzheimer's. We are forgetting too much. The poem is an oral medicine. Take one in your mouth once a day and read aloud. Repeat prescription.
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WUTHERING HEIGHTS - my take on what Wuthering Heights is really about
Publication: The Times
I read Wuthering Heights when I was sixteen and had just left home. I did not read it as a love story. I thought it was a loss story. Heathcliff loses Cathy. Cathy loses Heathcliff. Edgar Linton loses Cathy, their daughter, his life, and Thrushcross Grange. Hindley loses Wuthering Heights. His son Hareton is dispossessed,
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AfterWord: Conjuring the Literary Dead, edited by Dale Salwak, introduced by Margaret Atwood. Iowa University Press.
Publication: The Times : Books
What would you say to the Dead? What do you say to the Dead?
Death is not the end of the conversation as anyone with a dead friend knows. We go on talking not because we are duped by magical thinking but because there is more to say.
Language is not, as Nietzsche thought, a way of saying what is already dead in our hearts; it is a way of keeping ourselves and others alive.
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Grimm's Fairytales. Taschen
Publication: The Times : Books
Fairy stories are part of our everyday lives. We laugh about kissing the frogs to find the prince. We've all had our share of ugly sisters and big bad wolves. Our bright ideas are like the goose that lays the golden egg. Anybody with the right kind of cat knows that it wears boots.
Animal helpers figure large in fairy tales, as do reversals of fortune; the King becomes a beggar and Cinderella becomes Queen. Puddings multiply, broomsticks fly, the witch gets shoved in the oven, and the right people live happily ever after.
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