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altariel ([personal profile] altariel) wrote2006-02-14 07:50 pm

Books

Good pickings in town today, including one of the Dolphin Rings books by Rosemary Sutcliff that I was missing, The Silver Branch, and the bookshop owner taking pity on me when I came up to the till with a pile and then saw the one I'd gone if for (he knocked 50p off).

Got Brendan Kennelly's Glimpses: very short poems, no more than a few lines, vernacular and sharp and funny:


"No place like home," she said,
     eighty in her rocking chair
"where you can spit in the fire
     saucer your tea
       and call the cat a bastard."