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Three-three, two-two, five-six Ann Drysdale £8.99 UK delivery, £9.99 elsewhere
A masterpiece, striking a perfect balance between the metaphysical, physical, emotional and institutional aspects of serious illness. What makes it extraordinary is not only the brilliance of the writing but also the profundity of Ann Drysdale's love for this man… the balance between love and fear, distance and closeness, observation and empathy, humour and despair …something very rare in literature: great art that is also persuasive advocacy on a matter of the most urgent practical concern.
Raymond Tallis
An extraordinary account of an all too ordinary experience: the treatment in hospital of an elderly man afflicted with cancer. At heart, this is a love story, told in lucid prose and poetry of often corrosive honesty …reading it is a unique experience.
Herbert Williams
An extraordinarily moving work. The humiliations and fears are confronted with both painful clear-sightedness and saving humour; the moods are sometimes angry, sometimes loving, sometimes forlorn. It is a powerful indictment of the dehumanising system that is the NHS and of its broken promises. But it is also a record of the conspiratorial generosity extended by individuals within the system. In Three-three, two-two, five-six the poetry is not in the pity, certainly not in any kind of self-pity; it is created rather in the felt tension between human vulnerability and human dignity. This powerful work, beautifully crafted and judged, adds a new range and depth to the already considerable accomplishment of Ann Drysdale’s earlier work.
Glyn Pursglove
Discussing wittgenstein Ann Drysdale £8.99 UK delivery, £9.99 elsewhere
The sequel to the highly acclaimed Three-three, two-two, five-six
Discussing Wittgenstein picks up the story of Philip Gray and Ann Drysdale after their near death-bed marriage and Philip’s return home. It is the end of a remarkable love story, but it is also much more; a tender, poignant testimony to how personal mythologies are built and survive. Discussing Wittgenstein is an elegy to the human spirit and to our quest to shape experience into meaning.
Praise for Ann Drysdale’s previous work:
A masterpiece, striking a perfect balance between the metaphysical, physical, emotional and institutional aspects of serious illness. What makes it extraordinary is not only the brilliance of the writing but also the profundity of Ann Drysdale's love for this man… the balance between love and fear, distance and closeness, observation and empathy, humour and despair …something very rare in literature: great art that is also persuasive advocacy on a matter of the most urgent practical concern.
Professor Raymond Tallis
An extraordinarily moving work. In Three-three, two-two, five-six the poetry is not in the pity, certainly not in any kind of self-pity; it is created rather in the felt tension between human vulnerability and human dignity. This powerful work, beautifully crafted and judged, adds a new range and
depth to the already considerable accomplishment of Ann Drysdale’s earlier work.
Professor Glyn Pursglove
Ann Drysdale is an acclaimed poet who has also been a journalist and a farmer. She lives in South Wales.
Felicity & Barbara Pym Harrison Solow £8.99 UK delivery, £9.99 elsewhere
Publication date May 2010
Stunning literary non-fiction from Wales writer in residence and winner of a 2009 Pushcart Prize
What appear to be books about “Silly men, Mousy women, Tea, Religion, Quotations,” books in which apparently “nothing happens” are in fact novels that open up the world, novels that deal with youth, feminism, scepticism, cynicism, thoughtlessness, expectation, and so much more, concealed within “the economy of expression Miss Pym employs. “So writes the protagonist, Mallory Cooper to her reluctant literature student, Felicity. Beautifully observed, Felicity and Barbara Pym is a rare thing – a book of non-fiction that is also fictional, creative and literary in its own right. Written in an epistolary style, the narrator impresses on her pupil the importance of small things – “Minutia is their sustenance and their charm, which is why Pym is so essentially English,” she writes
Felicity and Barbara Pym is a cross-genre (fiction & non-fiction) literary work that has its roots in Harrison Solow’s own search as an undergraduate for “ a magnificently unified microcosm” of the world. Felicity is the silent fictional student with a “happy disregard” for centuries of interrelated scholarship intrinsic to a liberal arts education, including a disregard for the tools of study and a blithe preoccupation with the present. As Harrison Solow says, Barbara Pym’s work is hardly at the heart of a liberal education, but she is the antithesis to this prevailing attitude and her work has been undervalued. Appreciation is not perhaps what universities requests of students, says Solow, but this book is a work of literary appreciation via reasonable examination based on the premise that all subjects are interrelated.
Harrison Solow is published by major publishing houses, university presses, magazines and journals, in America, Wales, Canada and England. Writer in Residence for the University of Wales, Lampeter in 2008, Harrison was also the Director of The Saint David’s Institute for Wales in the World, an international intercultural and academic organisation, as well as a lecturer in English and American Literature and Writing (fiction and non-fiction) from 2004-2008. She won a prestigious Pushcart Prize for Literary Non-Fiction in 2008. Her poetry and short fiction has also won several awards.
