Welcome to Litsy!

This was disappointingly just ok at 3🌟 from me. It's about decidedly difficult issues of war, colonisation, urban decay & social injustice, but it all felt so distant, dissociated and cold. Harvey came over to me as a tourist: detached & observing the spectacle. She hasn't appeared that way in interviews I've seen, so I was expecting something with more heart.
A few of Murphy's photographs are spectacular, but, again, overall left me rather cold.

There was an old road
trees in both sides

but they put the trees away
and built houses

Pity for the old road
and for the trees on the right and left side

In my childhood we are taking this road
always to go down by the river

and to love swimming
and coming back late in the evening

I still have the smell in my nose
It was dusty and the trees...

I am recognising that a lot of time
had passed through since I left
👇🏼

Bit of a gear change from the banks of the Withywindle (having just finished The Adventures of Tom Bombadil) to the conflict-zones of Kosovo, Afghanistan & Washington DC. Despite loving all I've heard by PJ Harvey, I haven't any of her albums, which I need to sort out.
Garden weeds care of No Mow May, which intends to supply bees with early sources of nectar & is, frankly, an excuse I don't need to read instead of work. Also, on my 4th cup of tea!

My #WomanCrushWednesday is the multitalented, amazing Polly Jean Harvey. She writes & sings music, is an accomplished sculptor, she was in a Hal Hartley movie, and she's a poet. Yaassss!

Visiting London for the first time!!! Had to visit Waterstones by Picadilly and found there darlings - best of all a signed copy of The Hollow of the Hand!