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Tag Archives: memory
The Ghost Railway
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter T.S. Eliot – ‘The Waste Land’ A spring morning with an eerie stillness in the air and a sense of foreboding within me. Keep … Continue reading
Return to Fieldgate Street
Why can’t I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. Patti Smith, Just Kids When I was a student in London in the 1970s I lived in a tenement block called Fieldgate Mansions … Continue reading
Fieldgate Street
Why can’t I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. Patti Smith Just Kids The streets haunt you, just as echoes of you haunt them. You walk past the bell … Continue reading
Winter 2017/18 Reviews
A collection of seasonal reading loosely connected by the themes of landscape, time and memory… The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City – Iain Sinclair This is the eighteenth and supposedly final chapter of Iain Sinclair’s London novel. … Continue reading
Posted in Home
Tagged Big Bang, Canterbury, Druids, farming, Folk Horror, folklore, Kent, Lancashire, ley lines, London, mathematics, memory, place, psyhogeography, ritual, roads, Romans, sages, shamans, The Old North, time, Yorkshire
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Terence Davies’s Liverpool
Cinema creates a loop that preserves memory, and through the artful use of music and unexpected juxtaposition, Davies communicates the intensity that belongs to those memories. The re-enactments of Children are transcended. Death And Transfiguration is a powerful and deeply … Continue reading
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Tagged catholicism, childhood, Film, gay narrative, Liverpool, memory, Terence Davies
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Father of the Man: Terence Davies’s Trilogy
Children, Madonna and Child and Death and Transfiguration move relentlessly through the three stages of Robbie’s life. But Davies consciously breaks the rules of linear time as he moves backwards and forwards exploring the jumble of Robbie’s memories, his youth, … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood, Film, gorse, Liverpool, memory, social realism, Terence Davies
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