
‘Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time’. Colson Whitehead
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‘Learn of the pine from the pine; learn of the bamboo from the bamboo.’ Matsuo Basho (1644-94)
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Woven narratives
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‘Counterpoint is difficult... it is not just taking any opposite. It is finding the right opposite’. Robert Wilson
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‘There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.’ Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark
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Enduring inspiration…
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‘Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits’ Carl Sandburg
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‘I went daily to the cathedral of Milan, that singular mountain that was torn out of the rocks of Carrara…’ Hans Christian Andersen
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‘When early Dawn revealed her rose-red hands…’ Odyssey, Homer (trans. Emily Watson)
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Memories of visiting the Farnsworth House
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