Lots to think about this week after my poetry tutorial. Also spent time getting to grips with school attainment data and the concept of Value Added which, I think, is the education mantra of the moment of the Coalition Gov., and, in contrast, delighted in a second read of The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox. Thank you Maggie O’Farrell for such a powerful story, told with a light touch –able to make me laugh and cry on the same page. Looking forward to discussing it at book group next week.
I’ve signed up for a second on-line poetry course –the discipline of assignment writing continues to appeal, the one this term has had the very much needed effect of keeping me to the poetry task . I’m collecting my music influenced poems together with the aim of submitting them in January. Are there patterns in my work? Maybe like Anita Desai I have Emily Dickinson’s line in my head –’Memory is a strange bell –jubilee and knell. Seven words that say so much –that sort of reduction is what I am aiming for…
Some words I heard this week. More people died in WW2 from starvation than from a bullet and there’s a strange distribution of aid in Afghanistan -less to the peaceful north than to the war torn south apparently, asking questions about rewards for insurgency. How to look at these big issues at a slant … mmm needs thinking about on a long walk I think.
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