Saturday 27 October 2012

John Fowles in Dorset (and Greece)

BBC Radio 4 Extra, this morning, "Fowles in Dorset".

iPlayer, listen (John Fowles as Lyme Regis Museum Curator, and Oral Historian).

John Fowles on Lyme Regis Undercliff (film extract)

Fascinating taped interviews.

On John Fowles' poetry

Review 

The book

NB Many of the poems are set in Greece. Here's an extract from one of them:

what are we doing here
wasting time by the ochre road
under the pepper trees
swilling cheap wine...

waiting and boozing
at frantic noon
nobody knows when night will come
but thinkers think it could be soon...

barbarians Inglesoi men of the north
only half living in all this light:
watching the bus we should have caught
draw for eternity out of our sight


(from Aboulia)



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