Spillway

This Spillway is where I will pour my research overflow. Writing a literary biography of Jack Clemo for a PhD at Exeter University, I am finding subjects just beyond the range of my thesis but which interest me too much to abandon. It is these I will throw into the spillway.

Thursday, 5 February 2015

A ‘Difference of Mental Texture’: the Correspondence of Jack Clemo and A. L. Rowse

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This article was written for The Cornish Banner  and published January 2015. The Banner  has kindly given permission for it to appear on my...
Monday, 25 August 2014

What do Matt Groening and Jack Clemo have in common?

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What do Matt Groening and Jack Clemo have in common? At the beginning of 1994, the year of Jack Clemo’s death, the active but ail...
Thursday, 10 July 2014

The Writing Desk of Jack Clemo

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The writing desk of Jack Clemo is a humble piece of furniture, less impressive than the desks of St Austell cohabitants Sir Arthur Quille...
Sunday, 18 May 2014

Mahogany

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William Hogarth's Gin Lane In 1781, Boswell and Johnson were in Devon, visiting their friend Joshua Reynolds. It was ‘a most agre...
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Wednesday, 7 May 2014

Mining for Meaning

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Some of the work I enjoy most in Exeter’s archives is this sort of excavation, finding the rougher forms of Jack Clemo’s polished poems. Oc...
Thursday, 20 March 2014

Jack Clemo's Jukebox

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It might seem a peculiar idea to be considering the music a deaf man listened to, but bear with me. Before he went deaf, and then blind, Cl...
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