Fran Lock on Ulysses
top of page
ONE HAND CLAPPING
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_a42e733e8f5a40d1ba6eba28a191a1c9~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_a42e733e8f5a40d1ba6eba28a191a1c9~mv2.webp)
![Fran Lock on Ulysses](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_a42e733e8f5a40d1ba6eba28a191a1c9~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_448,h_292,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_a42e733e8f5a40d1ba6eba28a191a1c9~mv2.webp)
Proteus stilla maris , stella maris . drop of the sea, star of the sea, beaming out the necrotised telemetry of holiness, holiness,...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_a42e733e8f5a40d1ba6eba28a191a1c9~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_a42e733e8f5a40d1ba6eba28a191a1c9~mv2.webp)
![Fran Lock on The Lament for Art O'Leary](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_a42e733e8f5a40d1ba6eba28a191a1c9~mv2.jpeg/v1/fill/w_448,h_292,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_a42e733e8f5a40d1ba6eba28a191a1c9~mv2.webp)
Fran Lock on The Lament for Art O'Leary
Earlier this year – the 4th of May to be exact – the famous Irish lament, Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire or The Lament for Art O'Leary , ...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_f404b609c3c3413a9c2822d29367e4a6~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_f404b609c3c3413a9c2822d29367e4a6~mv2.webp)
![Paul Hostovsky on the music of sign language](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_f404b609c3c3413a9c2822d29367e4a6~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_f404b609c3c3413a9c2822d29367e4a6~mv2.webp)
Paul Hostovsky on the music of sign language
The Music of Sign Language It may sound oxymoronic, but there is music in sign language. Even if you don't understand a word of it, you...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_54a3db0b01a943a0871ff6b8f2cc6074~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_54a3db0b01a943a0871ff6b8f2cc6074~mv2.webp)
![John Eccleston: How Donna Tartt almost changed my life](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_54a3db0b01a943a0871ff6b8f2cc6074~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_54a3db0b01a943a0871ff6b8f2cc6074~mv2.webp)
John Eccleston: How Donna Tartt almost changed my life
I've been writing since I was a teenager. I've always thought of myself as a writer. But I'm fifty-eight this year and have had nothing...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_3ace970dc0c14be4833522cbd3884651~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_3ace970dc0c14be4833522cbd3884651~mv2.webp)
![Bruce Bromley: Unschooling](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_3ace970dc0c14be4833522cbd3884651~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_3ace970dc0c14be4833522cbd3884651~mv2.webp)
Bruce Bromley: Unschooling
Nearly halfway to fourteen and I've slept with more men than my parents Pat and Steve would ever care to count. I know them by the names...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_a961e6f9bcd4427fb635f5c0746f2dfa~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_a961e6f9bcd4427fb635f5c0746f2dfa~mv2.webp)
![Jo Balmer reviews "Euripides: The Trojan Women"](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_a961e6f9bcd4427fb635f5c0746f2dfa~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_400,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_a961e6f9bcd4427fb635f5c0746f2dfa~mv2.webp)
Jo Balmer reviews "Euripides: The Trojan Women"
Euripides: The Trojan Woman: A Comic by Rosanna Bruno, text by Anne Carson. Bloodaxe Books, 80pp. £10.99 "I always thought of them more...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_2925d42814f244ba8f012283cb286e8f~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_2925d42814f244ba8f012283cb286e8f~mv2.webp)
![Jane Feaver on Tracey Emin](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_2925d42814f244ba8f012283cb286e8f~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_2925d42814f244ba8f012283cb286e8f~mv2.webp)
Jane Feaver on Tracey Emin
Every Part of Me Kept Loving You, 2018 © Tracey Emin Stupidly good: Satan, Tracey Emin and me Preamble In Paradise Lost, Book IX, Satan,...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_dfbf6c84c2d84d5ca24fd3a745a0ab03~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_dfbf6c84c2d84d5ca24fd3a745a0ab03~mv2.webp)
![Yuval Noah Harari on Facebook](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_dfbf6c84c2d84d5ca24fd3a745a0ab03~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_dfbf6c84c2d84d5ca24fd3a745a0ab03~mv2.webp)
Yuval Noah Harari on Facebook
Five years ago, Yuval Noah Harari agreed to let us publish this article in our second print edition. For various reasons, we never...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_a08ffc325a0446b78b0e37c5b4ef0d48~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_a08ffc325a0446b78b0e37c5b4ef0d48~mv2.webp)
![Elaine Axten: Diagnosis](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_a08ffc325a0446b78b0e37c5b4ef0d48~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_a08ffc325a0446b78b0e37c5b4ef0d48~mv2.webp)
Elaine Axten: Diagnosis
The following is an edited extract from Different Day, a book that we hope will be published soon. Chapter One "When the dog dies", I...
![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-yCCxbZ4i1E/hqdefault.jpg)
![Fran Lock: Missing You](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/-yCCxbZ4i1E/hqdefault.jpg)
Fran Lock: Missing You
It is the 20th of December 2020. We are told we cannot travel, and I panic. We all do, although our panic manifests in different ways. My...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_2f881147cade4124bcef729211598cc7~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_2f881147cade4124bcef729211598cc7~mv2.webp)
![Elena Ferrante: an extract](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_2f881147cade4124bcef729211598cc7~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_2f881147cade4124bcef729211598cc7~mv2.webp)
Elena Ferrante: an extract
Writing Secretly Letter to Goffredo Fofi Dear Fofi, I'm sorry to have to tell you that I don't know how to give concise answers to the...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.webp)
![Brandon Robshaw: English Usage #28](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.webp)
Brandon Robshaw: English Usage #28
Bilabial Plosives, etc. I've been musing about bilabial plosives recently, as one does. A plosive is a sound made by releasing pent-up...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.webp)
![Brandon Robshaw: English Usage #27](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.webp)
Brandon Robshaw: English Usage #27
How do you pronounce "lingerie"? Not longeré. This is of course a very common mistake but I still can't get used to it. In French the...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.webp)
![Brandon Robshaw: English Usage #26](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.webp)
Brandon Robshaw: English Usage #26
A Potato in my Sock This morning I was pulling on my socks and I saw that one sock had a hole in the heel. "A potato", I thought. "I've...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.webp)
![Brandon Robshaw: English Usage #24](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.webp)
Brandon Robshaw: English Usage #24
Skiving off I don't feel like doing any work today. I feel like skiving. Skiving off. Being a skiver. I always associate the word "skive"...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.webp)
![Brandon Robshaw: English Usage #23](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.webp)
Brandon Robshaw: English Usage #23
Ass or arse? Has anyone else noticed that our good old English word arse is being usurped, at least in writing, by the US alternative...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_f6843ca0cf1f494998c45e3e215d220d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_f6843ca0cf1f494998c45e3e215d220d~mv2.webp)
![Bruce Bromley: an essay](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_f6843ca0cf1f494998c45e3e215d220d~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_f6843ca0cf1f494998c45e3e215d220d~mv2.webp)
Bruce Bromley: an essay
Go Farther Well, it’s the story of the 1980s. I’m very aware that younger generations of kids are growing up not knowing anything about...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.webp)
![Brandon Robshaw: English Usage #22](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.webp)
Brandon Robshaw: English Usage #22
The demise of "which" I received a letter from my optician which stated: "It is very important for patients over forty-five to have...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_9da839f76e904b8db3bcd664fed63f05~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_9da839f76e904b8db3bcd664fed63f05~mv2.webp)
![Hilary Mantel: an essay](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_9da839f76e904b8db3bcd664fed63f05~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_9da839f76e904b8db3bcd664fed63f05~mv2.webp)
Hilary Mantel: an essay
He Roared Danton: The Gentle Giant of Terror by David Lawday. Cape, 294 pp., £20, July 2009, 978 0 224 07989 1 "Give me a place to...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_769ddab53dea47c8940d3993b3366fe3~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_769ddab53dea47c8940d3993b3366fe3~mv2.webp)
![Lilian Pizzichini: Project Perm](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_769ddab53dea47c8940d3993b3366fe3~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_769ddab53dea47c8940d3993b3366fe3~mv2.webp)
Lilian Pizzichini: Project Perm
A thousand miles to the east of Moscow is the last city in Europe. To be precise, the fourth largest city in Russia, situated along the...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.webp)
![Brandon Robshaw: English Usage #21](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.webp)
Brandon Robshaw: English Usage #21
Worldie I might give the impression here sometimes that all I do is complain about language usage when it's not what I'm used to; that I...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_f2d460bee613466aa30085c542068d21~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_f2d460bee613466aa30085c542068d21~mv2.webp)
![Alice Willits: an essay](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_f2d460bee613466aa30085c542068d21~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_f2d460bee613466aa30085c542068d21~mv2.webp)
Alice Willits: an essay
A Pink Pathway Dianthus carthusianorum Her shriek split through the tanker drone along the Thames near Tilbury. My mother had spotted...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.webp)
![Brandon Robshaw: English Usage #19](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_ea2951f50485414182f6bbe9579d45af~mv2.webp)
Brandon Robshaw: English Usage #19
Has anyone else noticed that the traditional expression in the light of has dropped its definite article over the last few years, and now...
![](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_15310832578c4cecb74be42a6cac857a~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,fp_0.50_0.50,q_30,blur_30,enc_auto/f33620_15310832578c4cecb74be42a6cac857a~mv2.webp)
![Bruce Bromley: an essay](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f33620_15310832578c4cecb74be42a6cac857a~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_454,h_341,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/f33620_15310832578c4cecb74be42a6cac857a~mv2.webp)
Bruce Bromley: an essay
Thing, Idea, Virus: Little Words That’s the job of consciousness, to turn Now into Always, to mistake what is for what was meant to be....
bottom of page