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• What is a Human Woman? – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

  By Erna on February 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  As Elizabethan literary theorist Sir Philip Sidney claims in his 16th century work titled The Defence of Poesie, the purpose of poetry, later extended to encompass all literary genres, is to simultaneously teach and delight the reader. Gail Honeyman’s debut… Read More ›

• The Forgetful Narrator: Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey

  By Erna on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The idea of a completely reliable narrator is quite a questionable subject, since we are all unreliable when it comes to telling our own stories, hence, as the term ‘omniscient’ suggests, the reliable narrator must be some kind of divine,… Read More ›

• The Addled Narrator: A.J. Finn’s The Woman in the Window

  By Erna on July 26, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  After I’d completed A.J. Finn’s The Woman in the Window, I put the book down in my lap, leaned back, and stared somewhere into the middle distance while my mind went through the events in the novel once again, weighing… Read More ›

• 5-minute poem

  By Erna on May 14, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  tick-tock the hands roll spinning out of control pen stuck in a rut bleeding ink into a cut lecherous white face grins from the wall your shadow lengthens, heavy to haul bony fingers around your neck too late to scream,… Read More ›

• Bleak Day

  By Erna on May 12, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  I feel so bleak I hate being weak Under the weather Not holding the reins A cocktail of clichés The day is sunny But, isn’t it funny, I’m hoping for rain To wash the worries Down the drain. © 2018… Read More ›

• Ready Player One Movie: A Frolic Down the Memory Lane

  By Erna on April 20, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  It is a common occurrence that as soon as a book-based film gets released the critics start raving about how much better the book was. Yet we do seem to forget that books and films are two very different media… Read More ›

• Eine kleine Nachtmusik: Ishiguro’s Nocturnes

  By Erna on April 3, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  It is oft said that even the best of novelists hone their skills on short stories since they contain more or less the same elements as novels yet on a smaller scale. Kazuo Ishiguro’s charming collection titled Nocturnes: Five Stories… Read More ›

• Middle of Nowhere

  By Erna on February 10, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Mosquitoes on the glass Peer at the breathing mass Rubbing their dainty hands Expecting a feast in the sands In the midst of these parched lands Palm trees and a patch of grass Everything else meant to pass The wind… Read More ›

• Merciless

  By Erna on November 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Waiting on the roadside. What for? To be ticked off, Ground and minced, A pile of drying meat Left to rot and repel Everyone but hungry worms Obese, rolling heavily Yet famished, craving flesh. Is it worth the wait? Don’t… Read More ›

• Disintegrating

  By Erna on October 7, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Dreams fall apart In my hands Seep through my fingers Into the cracks Through the floor And into the river Of tears and sweat Flowing down the canyons Of the aged face where Dead dreams rot and fester Un-lived, unrealised,… Read More ›

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