The Persnickety Reader

Just read about the shocking amount of plastic swirling around the centre of our oceans.

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Looks like from this day forward I will use canvas shopping bags for groceries and buy everyone some for Christmas. Let’s call it my new crusade.

…the University of Oxford has just launched The First World War Poetry Digital Archive. This historical period has always fascinated me. In grad school, I studied the literature of the period, and some of it — Wilfred Owen’s poems, Frederic Manning’s novel Middle Parts of Fortune — I return to often. Some of the most powerful writing emerged from that period.

WW1 Gravestones, The Somme – Image © Oxford University

I had a look around the archive, and I was impressed. I urge you to do the same.