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Roma Tearne

October 16, 2011By Rob Spence • Posted in Uncategorized Tags: – IABF, Roma Tearne, Venice • No Comments

To the place everyone now calls the Burgess for a Manchester Literature Festival event with Roma Tearne. She was reading from her most-recently published novel, The Swimmer, and talking about her career, her novels, her other activities as an artist and film-maker, and, inevitably, about her views on Sri Lanka. She left her native country… Continue reading Roma Tearne

October 17, 2010By Rob Spence • Posted in Uncategorized Tags: – Canaletto, Canarregio, Ezra Pound, Florian's, Monteverdi, Philip Thorby, Simon Barraclough, Venice, Vespers • No Comments

To Venice, with ‘er indoors. Both of us were experiencing The Serenissima for the first time. The new image at the top of the blog is a photograph taken from the Rialto bridge, and it, like so many other photos we took, is eerily reminiscent of a Canaletto painting. And that’s the thing with Venice… Continue reading Venice