Clapboard houses, filled with dark eyes, watch the full moon rise, as the sun sets, and barren fields cry out for Spring’s relief. Bound by their small home place the women looked from windows, saw […]
Books & Poetry Articles
Painting Norway
Marigolds torch a pathway through fields uncertain whether spring has come early or late. Huts below the mountains smoulder beneath the ice, the clouds scorched with flame. Brooding couples dance slowly through the shadow of […]
By The Open Door
The wide front door flung open; mornings of nearly midsummer at the Parsonage. Carpentries of step and fence lead to the road, two sisters talk inside amid smell of wood. How cool in the showery […]
Dulwich Books at The Bedford: I Call Myself a Feminist
Last Wednesday 14th January Dulwich Books launched their new event series at The Bedford in Balham. The evening was a selection of readings from and a panel discussion about a new collection of essays entitled I […]
Dulwich Poet in the running for Costa Book Awards
Dulwich poet Kate Miller is one of four writers up for an award in the poetry category of this year’s Costa Book Awards. An art historian and picture restorer by training Miller published her first collection […]
Whatever Happened to the East India Company?
Roger Williams, author of London’s Lost Global Giant: The East India Company, fills us in. Among Dulwich Picture Gallery’s collection of marine paintings is Lorenzo a Castro’s A Dutch East Indiaman off Hoorn (1672-86), showing […]
Dulwich Literary Festival
Kate Mosse charmed us with ghostly tales, Melvyn Bragg regaled a packed Dulwich College library with stories from the peasant’s revolt, and as hundreds of people supported us, so the 2015 Dulwich Literary Festival was […]
POEM: A Girl At A Window
Girl of the rouged cheeks and tousled hair you are now and yesterday an enigma. Whom do you see in the street? Is it the classy lady who plays the clavichord next door as you […]
