[ZESTPoets] Fwd: New Writing December Update

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:51:36 -0800


speaking of writing on mothers and fathers. And before Albert pounces on me, the second extract is a poem.
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Date: Dec 1, 2005 11:21 PM
Subject: New Writing December Update
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Dear Aditi,

 

The December update to the New Writing website is now live. This month's theme is entitled 'Mothers' and offers two tantilising glimpses of lonely mother figures who are full of internalconfict: one on a Sri Lankan tea plantation and the other wandering in the sea mist by an unnamed shore. 

 

Shyam Selvadurai's novel extract 'Book of Chairs' depicts the intense love of a young boy for his mother. In their life on a tea plantation high in the hills of Sri Lanka, she is his chief companion in games of spies and a magical story-teller. In our New Writing 13 interview, Shyam Selvadurai says: 'I remember being 13... and you read avidly and in a wide way because you are grasping at experience and I think that's when I got excited by books... I wrote the book to my young adult self.'

 

The mother in Ramona Herdman's poem 'Mother's Gone Out...' is a solitary figure, full of desperate belief 'that something will, / that something must come to be.'

But she doesn't find the support she hopes for and by the end of the poem she is ready to disappear into the mist because

'...there's nothing will hold her here'.

 

Please forward this email on to anyone you think might appreciate it.

 

Best wishes


Pippa Vlietstra
Literature Department
British Council

 

 

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