Lady Godiva and Me

By Liam Guilar

Friday, July 6, 2018

Alan Garner Conclusion

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The original  attempt to explain why I admire Alan Garner's writing was split over four blog posts. Although it's a work in progress...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

Alan Garner 4, Learning how to read, the value of reading.

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WARNING: OPINIONATING IN PROGRESS Things I learnt. Should you rush off now and read Alan Garner? No, he’s my author, find your own....
Sunday, June 17, 2018

Alan Garner 3 Thursbitch and Boneland

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Phase three: Sui Generis. Thursbitch  2003 and  Boneland 2012.  Because this is about Garner, I am allowed one apparently unbelie...
Saturday, June 16, 2018

Alan Garner 2a Strandloper

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'Becoming difficult'.  Strandloper 1996.    I reread  Red shift   on a regular basis. But if there are three phrases in Garne...
Friday, June 15, 2018

Liam O’Flynn, uilleann piper, born 15 April 1945; died 14 March 2018

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I am so grateful I heard this man's playing. Borrowed tapes, scratched records, then all the way from Australia to Dublin to hear him l...

Alan Garner 2/3 The Owl Service and Red Shift

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Part two: Escaping a Genre.  The Owl Service  1967 and  Red Shift 1973 .  Reading the novels backwards in chronological sequence,  ...
Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Alan Garner 1/3

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Do not waver into language Do not waver in it.                         Seamus Heaney.  Or, Treasure the text that rattles your worl...
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This is Liam Guilar's Blog, mostly about poetry, mine and other people's, and anything else of interest. Over the years it has unintentionally developed into an online poetry resource, check the names in the sidebar but Bunting, Yeats, Pound, Joyce, Tennyson and the medieval poets get fair coverage. Lady Godiva and Me is a sequence of poems that linked Lady Godiva, both the historical Godgifu and the legendary Lady G, to a character growing up in the city of Coventry after the second world war. You can see a short film about the collection Here. Further information, full length articles and sample poems are available on my website Here .
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