Books

[altariel]

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."

Comments

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for bookshopping!

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I like that poem.

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

Glad I'm not the only one who swears at their cat ;-)

[mrkinch.livejournal.com]

Great poem. That's two I've liked, may have to buy.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm glad you did so well. Were they all from David's? That place has such a turnover of really good books, it's fantastic.

Btw, have you seen that Susan Cooper is going to be at Heffers next month?