Beatrice Parvin
Crossing the Pyrenees at Dusk
Last month, I walked from Guildford to Gomshall across the North Downs. It was Remembrance Sunday, and before we began we visited a Tesco...
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Beatrice Parvin
Oct 30, 20222 min read
Descent to the Underworld
Hallowe’en/Samhain approaches and the presence of the witch in our culture has never been so prevalent. Not because she is casting spells...
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Beatrice Parvin
Sep 20, 20225 min read
Laundry Lists and Wattle Trees
When I wrote Captain Swing and the Blacksmith I was focused on the drama of the events of 1830 and did not cast my mind to the next...
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Beatrice Parvin
Aug 24, 20221 min read
Captain Swing and the Blacksmith - ebook available!
'Parvin’s debut novel, though driven by an obsessive love, is no romance; and while a character finds redemption, it is no parable....
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Beatrice Parvin
Aug 5, 20224 min read
South Downs Way - Winchester to East Meon
Waterloo to Winchester - blur of green hedges, time, azure skies of summer - four hundred years travelled in an hour. I was curious to...
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Beatrice Parvin
Sep 23, 201915 min read
Landscape and Melody
An Experience of Translating Song to Prose. “It must live on, and because of its glorious ricketiness.” Umberto Eco[1] Captain Swing and...
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Beatrice Parvin
Jun 23, 20191 min read
The Chalk and the Cheese
The month of May brought myself and the band to Wiltshire. Our first stop being Avebury which lies on high chalk grassland. I first spent...
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Beatrice Parvin
Apr 14, 20193 min read
When Songs Collide 2
More plots from vengeful sweethearts and moonlight shenanigans…this is a first draft from student Georgia Lewis…who has caught the rhythm...
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Beatrice Parvin
Mar 22, 20192 min read
When Songs Collide
When songs collide anything can happen…I think ‘The Housemaid’s Revenge’ is a ballad in the making – several students saw this as the...
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Beatrice Parvin
Mar 13, 20191 min read
Enervating Wiles
There is nothing like a good folk song rhyme… poor old Georgie Barnwell is beguiled by the ‘enervating wiles’ of a certain lady to murder...
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Beatrice Parvin
Mar 1, 20194 min read
Spadgewhistles and Goozegogs
Creating a Historical Voice with Dialect It is impossible to accurately replicate the voices of the distant past as we cannot hear them....
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Beatrice Parvin
Feb 23, 20192 min read
Message in a Bottle
It was a real pleasure to be interviewed by two fellow travellers from the Creative Writing MFA Kingston. Sinead Keegan and Lisa Davison...
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Beatrice Parvin
Feb 21, 20191 min read
Landscape and Melody
Oxfordshire – three days ago. I’m increasingly realising how these stark lines and bare trees, sentinel on low mounds, have shaped my...
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Beatrice Parvin
Feb 13, 20192 min read
Our Secret History in Song
I’m very happy that this Creative Writing workshop at Wiltshire and Swindon History centre has been rescheduled to 16th March. I spent...
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Beatrice Parvin
Feb 3, 20191 min read
Avebury blizzard forced new date!
Poor Avebury was without power and roads were cut off from the outside world on Friday 1st February…I arrived in Swindon in a snow storm,...
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Beatrice Parvin
Jan 28, 20191 min read
Props assembled!
Yellow silk, threatening notes and feathered quills will be filling my suitcase for Avebury. After a brilliant rehearsal excited to...
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Beatrice Parvin
Jan 17, 20191 min read
Interview by Naomi Clifford
I had a great afternoon with writer, Naomi Clifford, discussing the writing of the novel. We explored the relationship between song,...
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