Libraries aren’t the only way to Lend
You’ll have been hard pressed not to have heard the news and protests about the closure of hundreds of the nation’s libraries. The level of demonstration has perhaps been surprising given the number of us who regularly visit a library, but it’s clear books have become a real political issue. Due to my job I have been a prolific library visitor over the last year and found them to be a fascinating mix of drop in centre, book haven and crèche. The clientele often ranges from those resembling a host of sickly patients from a doctor’s waiting room, middle aged book lovers, and young children. There are also those with unimaginable patience who come to use the Neolithic, glacial paced computers.
The 18th Century, putting the pornography into poetry
I wonder if T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste land’ would prove more popular with a little more smut in it. How about some Seamus Heaney with a cleverly placed dildo? Well, an Oxford academic has recently found pornographic poems hidden at the end of a popular 18th Century poetry volume.
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