Beatrice Parvin
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
- 5 min
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
- 1 min
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
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 15 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 3 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 4 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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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