Claire McAlpine 📚
Reads, Reviews at Word by Word
Enjoys women in translation, Irish Lit, Nature Writing, Creative Non-fiction
Adoptee
In France via London via NZ of Ireland, Scotland.
www.clairemcalpine.com
- It's mimosa season and there's nothing like appreciating it growing wild in the hills overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Today's walk up to Notre Dame d'Afrique.
- Reading this stunning book of essays, poems, images in Kinship/Home by Irish visual artist #DorothyCross It commemorates the return of the mummified body of a man in an Egyptian sarcophagus that was buried over 2000 yrs ago, that has been in Ireland since the 1920s. For displaced peoples everwhere
- Sharing words, poems, short prose essays on time, loss, death and the passage of humans: invited by #DorothyCross to contribute are: Sonali Deraniyagala, Nadra Mabrouk, Hisham Matar, Edmund de Waal, Rosemary Mahoney, Ahdaf Soueif, Philippe Sands, John Fitzgerald, Michael D.Higgins, Max Porter.
- Inspired by an interview with #SuzieMiller I read 2 plays #primafacie & #Interalia They are a challenge to justice, the law and the way we parent, from within. Her protagonists are schooled in the law. When they find themselves victims & parents of a perpetrator, they experience its full horror.
- The interview. Highly recommended to learn the path from scientist to lawyer to playwright in order to effect change against rampant and sustained injustice embedded in law. Suzie Miller: The woman behind Prima Facie, the sell-out play starring Jodie Comer www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/the...
