Poetry: Learned Behaviour

“Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea…and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Genesis 1:26-27 Sand lies still.Untouched, a patent beauty.Wave thunders, pressing himself across the ocean, always seeking, expecting.He crashes over her, smothering her, wetting her. FulfillingContinue reading “Poetry: Learned Behaviour”

Quarantine Series: The World According To ‘Self-Improvement during Quarantine’ Post 1: Reading

Quarantine and Lockdown have been the bane of everybody’s Covid-19 experience. Here are some ideas to pass the time that my friends, professors and I have engaged in over the course of lockdown. We hope you get as much enjoyment out of them as us. I will be posting a Quarantine Series as follows (seeContinue reading “Quarantine Series: The World According To ‘Self-Improvement during Quarantine’ Post 1: Reading”

The World According to ‘Are Women Safer in the Literary Past than Modern Society?’

“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, someContinue reading “The World According to ‘Are Women Safer in the Literary Past than Modern Society?’”