Author Archives: Dove

Thoughts: The China Coin by Allan Baillie

Posted on 8 January 2017 by Dove

You know how some books just stick in your head, even if you haven’t read them? The China Coin was one of those for me. I don’t know how old I was, but it was at one of our school’s … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Little Big Man by Thomas Berger

Posted on 6 January 2017 by Dove

It’s that time of the year, with a fresh Christmas haul and before work starts again for the year, where if you’re not looking directly at me, I’m hibernating somewhere with a book. This one is going to be a … Continue reading →

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Thoughts: Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen

Posted on 5 January 2017 by Dove

New year, new attempts to hit those old resolutions! Namely, to record my thoughts about the books I read. I tried throwing out my thoughts on Twitter, and while at first I quite enjoyed tearing 140-character pieces off my thoughts … Continue reading →

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Valentine’s Poem

Posted on 14 February 2016 by Dove

This is the poem I wrote for Spuggy and gave him on the morning of our wedding <3 OK, I meant to give it to him then but I forgot because I was so nervous. I gave it to him … Continue reading →

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In The Bleak Two Rivers – a Wheel of Time poem

Posted on 25 December 2015 by Dove

Hello again. If you don’t remember my Thomas Covenant retelling of Twas the Night Before Christmas, then… follow this link and then you will! As I finished reading the Wheel of Time only this year, I thought it was only … Continue reading →

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A True Story Poem

Posted on 25 October 2015 by Dove

I’m finally doing my last bit of typing up before NaNoWriMo begins, and I came across a poem I wrote ages ago, or in August or something. Nothing in particular to recommend – if you want to know my unsolicited … Continue reading →

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Poem about how hot it is #3

Posted on 2 September 2015 by Dove

It’s finally got hot and muggy again, so it doesn’t feel weird to be writing about the heat. Conflicted hurray! I haven’t been reading any poetry recently, alas, so no recommendations or opinions. Only prose. So much prose. When I … Continue reading →

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Poem about how hot it is #2

Posted on 23 August 2015 by Dove

Hello friends. Not a huge amount of poetry recommendation today, partly because I’m still stuck in the flytrap-sticky, rabbit hole world of Alan Turing and partly because the only other poetry I have read recently is by Adrienne Rich, and … Continue reading →

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Poem about how hot it is #1

Posted on 18 August 2015 by Dove

It’s been a while. It’s been so long, in fact, that it’s no longer particularly hot in Frankfurt (though it will return to your regularly scheduled 28 degrees this weekend, apparently). Let’s start with a recommendation of actual good poetry, … Continue reading →

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Surprise Poem! and unsurprising recc

Posted on 3 July 2015 by Dove

So, I finished Burger’s Daughter by Nadine Gordimer last night. My initial impressions were unchanged – it’s a great, nuanced, complex story about identity. About how our upbringings shape who we are and who we want to be and who … Continue reading →

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