Thanks to Jennifer Smith for drawing attention to wonderful free posters at the Scottish Poetry Library on her Facebook wall
Rosemary Sutcliff, Alistair Campbell, bagpipes and National Libraries Day fail to connect
Some would say I have been idling away this early Saturday morning in Leicester (UK), by chance finding myself using Twitter to try to connect up Rosemary Sutcliff‘s favourite instrument, a national radio programme transmitting from Leicester at the moment, former Prime Minister’s press spokesperson Alistair Campbell and National Libraries Day. To absolutely no effect at all … read from the bottom to follow the (one way!) conversation.
Works by Rosemary Sutcliff most widely held in libraries worldwide | World Cat
19 editions published between 1990 and 2009 in English and held by 1,649 libraries worldwide
In 600 A.D. in northern Britain, Prosper becomes a shield bearer with the Companions, an army made up of three hundred younger sons of minor kings and trained to act as one fighting brotherhood against the invading Saxons. Read More »
In 600 A.D. in northern Britain, Prosper becomes a shield bearer with the Companions, an army made up of three hundred younger sons of minor kings and trained to act as one fighting brotherhood against the invading Saxons. Read More »
Henry Miller’s Commandments for Writing
1. Work on one thing at a time until finished.
2. Start no more new books, add no more new material to “Black Spring.”
3. Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
4. Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
5. When you can’t create you can work.
6. Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
7. Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
8. Don’t be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
9. Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
10. Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
11. Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.
Rosemary Sutcliff held her pen in wonderfully idiosyncratic and innovative way
Writing in The Independent newspaper in the UK after Rosemary Sutcliff‘s death in July 1992, writer Penelope Lively recalled a visit in the early 1970s to Rosemary’s house Swallowshaw, in Sussex.
… I remember looking at (her) hands and wondering – idiotically – if she could hold a pen. Of course she could, in a wonderfully idiosyncratic and innovative way, writing almost upside down, it seemed, and she drew them her dolphin logo and a great flowery signature, in their cherished Charles Keeping-illustrated hardbacks.
Source: The Independent, July 31, 1992, p24
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 