Sandra Leigh Price
@sandraleighprice.bsky.social
Writer. The Bird’s Child 2015 and The River Sings 2017 (FourthEstate). Books. Folklore. History. Art. Nature. https://linktr.ee/sandraleighpricewriter?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=273b94c5-674a-4393-b02e-9beb1569afee
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Happy to announce ELEMENTS OF THE WRITING LIFE masterclasses 2026 are open for enrolment! How to keep writing at the centre of your life when the world is trying to tear it away. With brilliant NZ novelist/screenwriter Emily Perkins. charlottewoodwriter.thinkific.com/courses/elem...
ELEMENTS OF THE WRITING LIFE
All 5 classes of Elements of the Writing Life, the 2026 online masterclass series presented by award-winning authors Emily Perkins and Charlotte Wood.
charlottewoodwriter.thinkific.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Happy to announce ELEMENTS OF THE WRITING LIFE masterclasses 2026 are open for enrolment! How to keep writing at the centre of your life when the world is trying to tear it away. With brilliant NZ novelist/screenwriter Emily Perkins. charlottewoodwriter.thinkific.com/courses/elem...
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19th century Danish artist Frants Henningsen conveys the stark situation of an abandoned single mother, with a child and babe-in-arms (Abandoned,1888).
July 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
19th century Danish artist Frants Henningsen conveys the stark situation of an abandoned single mother, with a child and babe-in-arms (Abandoned,1888).
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Jay Griffiths' new book is on animals??? Be still my heart! An author I love, a subject I love. This one goes immediately onto my Reading List.
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
How animals make us better | The Observer
Jay Griffiths is an evangelical guide to the restorative powers of our non-human companions
observer.co.uk
June 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Jay Griffiths' new book is on animals??? Be still my heart! An author I love, a subject I love. This one goes immediately onto my Reading List.
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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Stony but not grey – An Irishman’s Diary about Paul Durcan’s memories of Patrick Kavanagh
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/ston...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/ston...
Stony but not grey – An Irishman’s Diary about Paul Durcan’s memories of Patrick Kavanagh
www.irishtimes.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Stony but not grey – An Irishman’s Diary about Paul Durcan’s memories of Patrick Kavanagh
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/ston...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/ston...
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Exhausted-looking boy, warmed only by sackcloth and a small fire, shakes his wooden clacker to deter crows from eating newly-sown seed (George Clausen, Bird Scaring, March, 1896) artuk.org/discover/art...
May 12, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Exhausted-looking boy, warmed only by sackcloth and a small fire, shakes his wooden clacker to deter crows from eating newly-sown seed (George Clausen, Bird Scaring, March, 1896) artuk.org/discover/art...
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This striking Portrait of a Young Lady in an emerald green dress was created in 1852 by Swiss artist Jean Baptiste Bonjour. The woman’s identity is unknown, but the painting’s title describes her as “a free person of colour”
May 9, 2025 at 6:02 AM
This striking Portrait of a Young Lady in an emerald green dress was created in 1852 by Swiss artist Jean Baptiste Bonjour. The woman’s identity is unknown, but the painting’s title describes her as “a free person of colour”
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"The Un-home ... When the kitchen chairs start assembling themselves, when doors open on their own, when the crucifix on the wall turns upside-down, our home reverts to its unfamiliar state before it was claimed; it turns back into a house."
April 30, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"The Un-home ... When the kitchen chairs start assembling themselves, when doors open on their own, when the crucifix on the wall turns upside-down, our home reverts to its unfamiliar state before it was claimed; it turns back into a house."
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Sloe blossom like "cloaths hung out to dry" - I've seen this image used before - the hedges must have been decked with laundry all year round - shining like blossom
1825: Saw the redstart or Firetail today & little Willow wren - the blackthorn tree in full flower that shines about the hedges like cloaths hung out to dry - Saw in the Stamford paper that the lost leaf of Domesday book was found & had no time to copy out the account
April 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Sloe blossom like "cloaths hung out to dry" - I've seen this image used before - the hedges must have been decked with laundry all year round - shining like blossom
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Brian Friel’s vanishing world - In the playwright’s short stories, modernity collides with an older, more mysterious sense of place.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
Brian Friel’s vanishing world
In the playwright’s short stories, modernity collides with an older, more mysterious sense of place.
www.newstatesman.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Brian Friel’s vanishing world - In the playwright’s short stories, modernity collides with an older, more mysterious sense of place.
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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Just finished this wonderful book. @lauracummingart.bsky.social writes beautifully, with passion and insight, urging us to see. @rovelli.bsky.social's 'blurred vision' comes to mind, how we see the world not as it is but through the lens of being human. Thunderclap shows what we can see if we look.
April 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Just finished this wonderful book. @lauracummingart.bsky.social writes beautifully, with passion and insight, urging us to see. @rovelli.bsky.social's 'blurred vision' comes to mind, how we see the world not as it is but through the lens of being human. Thunderclap shows what we can see if we look.
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8.30pm. Children of the Stone Tape. New series. A gang of men who twenty years ago were in the vanguard of hauntology and folk horror realise they are nearly 60 years old and yet are still listening to the theme music from some old Granada shit kids show from 1978. Episode 1: Wasted Lives.
April 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
8.30pm. Children of the Stone Tape. New series. A gang of men who twenty years ago were in the vanguard of hauntology and folk horror realise they are nearly 60 years old and yet are still listening to the theme music from some old Granada shit kids show from 1978. Episode 1: Wasted Lives.
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Seamus Heaney born on 13 April, 1939 in Mossbawn, near Castledawson, in rural County Derry, Northern Ireland.
“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
April 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Seamus Heaney born on 13 April, 1939 in Mossbawn, near Castledawson, in rural County Derry, Northern Ireland.
“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
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Heaney on Beckett’s definition of Irish
April 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Heaney on Beckett’s definition of Irish
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Many of us are probably familiar with the images of the garden at Monet’s house at Giverny, but the inside of his house is equally vibrant ~ here’s the kitchen / and dining room (Architectural Digest)
April 13, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Many of us are probably familiar with the images of the garden at Monet’s house at Giverny, but the inside of his house is equally vibrant ~ here’s the kitchen / and dining room (Architectural Digest)
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Petronella Oortman’s Dollhouse (1676) was fitted out so richly that it cost as much as a real house, & inspired Jessie Burton’s novel The Miniaturist. Here’s how it appears in the Rijksmuseum, and at R, how it originally appeared, in a painting by Jacob Appel in 1710
April 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Petronella Oortman’s Dollhouse (1676) was fitted out so richly that it cost as much as a real house, & inspired Jessie Burton’s novel The Miniaturist. Here’s how it appears in the Rijksmuseum, and at R, how it originally appeared, in a painting by Jacob Appel in 1710
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When Vesuvius erupted in 79AD, a group of painters/decorators fled Pompeii, leaving behind their unfinished work & these paint pots & mixing bowls. Pigments shown here range from yellow (ochre) to blue (Egyptian Blue) to red (Haematite) smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
April 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
When Vesuvius erupted in 79AD, a group of painters/decorators fled Pompeii, leaving behind their unfinished work & these paint pots & mixing bowls. Pigments shown here range from yellow (ochre) to blue (Egyptian Blue) to red (Haematite) smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a...
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Emily Dickinson's herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of poetry and science
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Forgotten Treasure at the Intersection of Science and Poetry
An elegy for time and the mortality of beauty, composed with passionate patience and a sensuous cadence.
www.themarginalian.org
April 5, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Emily Dickinson's herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of poetry and science
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Tariffs of 10% have been placed on the residents of Heard and McDonald Islands. The local king, gentoo, macaroni and eastern rockhopper penguins are reeling in shock tonight.
April 3, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Tariffs of 10% have been placed on the residents of Heard and McDonald Islands. The local king, gentoo, macaroni and eastern rockhopper penguins are reeling in shock tonight.
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Almost-forgotten 17C Venetian artist Chiara Varotari was an early advocate for women’s rights, and started her own professional art school. Her ìntense self-portrait here, at L, is a striking contrast to her more formal work www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/...
March 29, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Almost-forgotten 17C Venetian artist Chiara Varotari was an early advocate for women’s rights, and started her own professional art school. Her ìntense self-portrait here, at L, is a striking contrast to her more formal work www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/...
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I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
March 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
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In 1855, after being banished from France after a coup d’etat, famed author Victor Hugo settled in Guernsey, where French was still the dominant language. Here’s Hauteville House where he lived, after an extravagant no-holds-barred renovation
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/victor...
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/victor...
March 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
In 1855, after being banished from France after a coup d’etat, famed author Victor Hugo settled in Guernsey, where French was still the dominant language. Here’s Hauteville House where he lived, after an extravagant no-holds-barred renovation
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/victor...
www.worldofinteriors.com/story/victor...
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A friend told me he had been clearing out his gran’s house. The most amazing thing he found there was this knitted effigy of the man who had run off and abandoned my friend’s pregnant aunt. Into the effigy had been stuck twenty knitting needles: one for every year since the man had vanished.
March 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
A friend told me he had been clearing out his gran’s house. The most amazing thing he found there was this knitted effigy of the man who had run off and abandoned my friend’s pregnant aunt. Into the effigy had been stuck twenty knitting needles: one for every year since the man had vanished.
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This morning, AustLit was inscribed on the Australian Register of the UNESCO Memory of the World Registry.
We are proud and delighted to have our unique resource recognised as significant documentary heritage, in recognition of its significance to the nation!
We are proud and delighted to have our unique resource recognised as significant documentary heritage, in recognition of its significance to the nation!
March 27, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This morning, AustLit was inscribed on the Australian Register of the UNESCO Memory of the World Registry.
We are proud and delighted to have our unique resource recognised as significant documentary heritage, in recognition of its significance to the nation!
We are proud and delighted to have our unique resource recognised as significant documentary heritage, in recognition of its significance to the nation!
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Hwaet! We the Haligonians, in days gone by, did hear of the glory of our forebears, and did great deeds of knitting.
March 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Hwaet! We the Haligonians, in days gone by, did hear of the glory of our forebears, and did great deeds of knitting.