Tag: W.S.Graham

‘an Archangel – a little damaged – igniting the dark firmament with speech’

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’Joseph Conrad - A Personal Remembrance’ by Ford Madox Ford, written immediately after Conrad’s death, published 1924. I bought it in a secondhand bookshop at The Guildhall in Lavenham (Suffolk). Ford is always engaging, entertaining and completely unreliable. So these comments may have no basis in fact, but this is what he says Conrad thought … Continue reading ‘an Archangel – a little damaged – igniting the dark firmament with speech’

’an ancient, woven, wet, ditch-dance’

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Elizabeth-Jane Burnett’s book ‘Twelve Words for Moss’ is not exactly a scientific book, although it contains a lot of botanical information. It’s more a series of meditations on moss and (trying to delay too-glib a rhyme) loss, specifically the loss of her father. Both nature writing and grief memoir, it is also interspersed with Burnett’s … Continue reading ’an ancient, woven, wet, ditch-dance’