ARTICLES
“The Love Killers: Thoughts on Dyadic Death” in Crime
Edited by Ross Bradshaw, Five Leaves Press, 2013 Christopher Foster and his family, Photo taken on the day before he murdered them. Illustration from Rod Madocks; ‘Dyadic Death’. Buy at Amazon Buy at Five Leaves
“Young Man’s Desire” : Rescuing Memories of Blundell’s School in the 1960s and 1970s.
“The ribs and thigh bones of the young man’s desire to impress himself lying dark in the mist of his flesh.” Virginia Woolf, ‘To The Lighthouse’. “Whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue,...
Opposed John Lucas
Ⓒ Rod Madocks Without Contraries “How wonderful that we have encountered a paradox. Now we can make some progress.” Niels Bohr I was an awkwardly precocious youth. I read The Metaphysical Poets all the time in that old orange Penguin edition by Helen Gardner and I...
Hawkhurst Court
Ⓒ Rod Madocks Hawkhurst Court I hear that someone is writing a history of Hawkhurst Court School, Wisborough Green. Good luck to them. The school has now vanished, I understand some of the buildings survive in the guise of luxury homes. There is little documentary...
Solstice at Shirley
Ⓒ Rod Madocks Solstice at Shirley: Re-encountering John Cowper Powys I pressed my spine to the coils of the beech roots. I hoped none of the villagers would come by. They’d probably think I was crazy like John Cowper Powys’ neighbours at Phudd Bottom, New York State,...