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Monthly Archives: November 2012

Take up your cross and follow me – Andrew Motion’s The Customs House

November 26, 2012

If you’re ever on the A34 near Basingstoke, then consider stopping at Burghclere. The main road is unchanged since painted …

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Me and my shadow – Egg Printing Explained by Katy Evans-Bush

November 19, 2012

With a jolt I realised that I was standing at the foot of my own grave. Sergeant John Field, 1803339, of …

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I am the invisible man – Olivia McCannon’s Exactly My Own Length

November 12, 2012

Rush hour is cruel to those going nowhere. To stand frozen as the city wheels about, reconfiguring itself for dinners …

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Rogues’ Gallery

November 6, 2012

How many of my muses can you name? Thank you to my brother, Peter James Field, for the banner which …

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The Passionate Shepherd – Leontia Flynn’s These Days

November 4, 2012

Friends were surprised when I said that my narrowboat wouldn’t prove popular with the ladies. ‘What’, they asked ‘about the …

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Breathless – David Morley’s Enchantment

November 1, 2012

Gerard Manley Hopkins was snotty about Oxford’s outskirts. In Duns Scotus’s Oxford, he reserves his praise for the ivory towers …

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