On death in Mary Oliver’s poetry I love how Mary writes of death in White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field. There’s a whole section of owl poems in the collection of her selected poems that I’m reading. Which makes me wonder about owls as harbingers of death or representations of death for […]
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The week that started 30th March 2020
In our black caucus at work, we talked about black authors to read, here are some recommendations… Kiley Reid x 2 Tomi Adeyemi x 2 (The Children of Blood and Bone trilogy) Colson Whitehead Brit Bennett (debut: The Mothers) Jacqueline Woodson (Another Brooklyn) The autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave […]
The week that started 25th November
On discipline On books I finished reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. Loved it. Also, realised this isn’t the first book I’ve read by him – I read, and loved, Exit West a while ago. Hurray! I decided to start a library at work. Pretty excited. Send me your recommendations for agile and related […]