In his essay, ‘A Defence of Poetry’, Shelley distinguishes reason from imagination in the following way: “Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. Reason is to imagination as the instrument to the […]
Children’s author Robin Kingsland looks up from a script of ‘Soldier’ a show he’s currently helping with at the Edinburgh Festival as I arrive to interview him in the quiet back room of the Pret […]
The metaphor of the city as organic matter is by no means a new one. In ancient Greece, Aristophanes’s Lysistrata, compared classical Athens to a tangle of wool with the insistence that all imperfections, ‘knots’, […]
Art is created to express oneself and to allow others to see something fantastical through another point of view. Novels are written as a creative outlet for the author but to also take the reader […]
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