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Joelle Taylor: ‘I picked up The Weirdstone of Brisingamen in a swoon of nine

The poet and playwright on queer classics, cinematic TS Eliot and the comforts of a ghost storyMy earliest reading memoryI was around five when my mum first pulled out Clement C Moore’s The Night Before Christmas, a bumper blue book with vivid illustrations. There was such suspense in the poem, such inexorable music, the sonic possibilities matching the mystery.My favourite book growing upThe Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner. I used to spend every spare moment in Bacup library, Lancashire, bag of sweets to the right and a book open before me. I had read all of Enid Blyton’s Secret Seven books, thought Famous Five were all a bit dry, and picked up Weirdstone in a swoon of nine-year-old despair. The darkness was delicious, exciting because many of the landmarks in the story were from my local area. Continue reading...


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