The Doll’s House by Patience Agbabi    ‘Poetry is the purest of the language arts. It’s the tightest cage, and if you can get it to sing in that cage it’s really wonderful.’ Rita Dove ‘…a blind doll with kaleidoscopic … >>>>>…….>>>>>…….

Filters and open awareness   (edited) The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s … >>>>>…….>>>>>…….

The walls “All this pitting of sex against sex, of quality against quality; all this claiming of superiority and imputing of inferiority, belong to the private-school stage of human existence where there are ‘sides,’ and it is necessary for one … >>>>>…….>>>>>…….