7/14/2023 0 Comments Cliff noteaShe realizes that the servants in Yorkshire behave quite differently from those in India Martha, for instance, refuses to dress Mary and instead encourages the little girl to be more independent. In the first few days after arriving at the manor, Mary must acclimate to her new environment. When they arrive at the mansion, Mary is sent straight to her new room and meets her servant, Martha Sowerby. Craven has become somewhat of a hermit after losing his beloved wife 10 years prior. Medlock about her uncle’s reclusive behavior. In the car ride to the manor, Mary is informed by Mrs. Mary continues behave very disagreeably, feeling a reluctance to move to this unknown place. Mary journeys to England by boat and is met by Mr. The estate is called Misselthwaite Manor. As a result, Mary is sent to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven, at his huge estate in Yorkshire, England. Later she is found by a police officer who tells her that both her parents have also perished from the disease. She does’t feel much sadness and goes to take a nap. One day, there is news of a cholera outbreak and Mary finds out abruptly that her nurse Ayah has died. Ayah and the other servants are extremely docile and will indulge Mary’s every whim, which has led her to become a very spoiled little girl who expects others to do everything for her. Mary has been mostly raised by her Indian servant named Ayah. She lives in India with her father, a British statesman, and her mother, a self-absorbed woman who frequently is out at parties and socializing. Aside from performing poetry across the South West, she has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, at multiple UK National competitions, on BBC Radio Bristol and was featured on the BAFTA-winning Sky Arts spoken word TV show Life and Rhymes.The book opens by introducing Mary Lennox, a sour and disagreeable 9-year-old girl. She is a former UK Slam Champion and a World Slam Finalist (2021). She talks openly about disabilities, mental health, LGBTQIA+ issues and joys and gender politics in her wide range of poems. Kathryn O’Driscoll is a spoken word poet, writer and activist from Bath, England. Here is a poet that that invites you to make the crossing and discover new territory in your own world.’ – Shane Koyczan ABOUT THE AUTHOR This collection is passage across a heart that beats so loudly we can feel the tremors in our own lives. ‘Kathryn O’Driscoll uses words to build bridges across the chasms we all dread to fall into. ‘Kathryn O’Driscoll’s Cliff Notes demonstrates the alchemy of poetry: summoning colour from blankness, shapes from the void, and making life from the very things that threaten it.’ – Caroline Bird This is poetry as survival and suffering, with no easy answers about which will win in the end. This collection won’t let you catch your breath. Yet amid all the darkness, each poem is a defiant flare of hope that change is still possible.Ĭliff Notes sets you adrift, struggling to keep your head above water that will either save or destroy you with its next wave. O’Driscoll’s writing is sharply human as she unflinchingly excavates the grimmest places and combs through the decay to find if there is anything alive growing there still. Intrusive thoughts, metaphor, and facts are woven together until reality is indistinguishable from a dysfunctional mind’s perception of it.Ī biological cartography of the effects of trauma and silence, both enforced and self-imposed, this is a portrait of the body as the site of betrayal but also redemption. Poetry from the precipice oscillating between beauty and brutality, Cliff Notes examines how our experiences shape our ideas about who we are. Exploring grief, sexual abuse, mental illness, isolation and recovery, Cliff Notes forms the story of many losses and what is left behind. Kathryn O’Driscoll’s debut collection comes from the edge of being alive, being sane, and being heard.
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