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Podcast: A Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally Bayley
Episode: The Farrier
Description: Sally has just finished a lesson with a student who is writing a story in the vein of Thomas Hardy about a young man on a farm. Searching for visual references, they latch on to a painting of a farrier, shoeing a horse. Now the image, haunted by a spectral figure, has lingered in Sally's mind and she reflects on how visual and physical memory can inspire writing; and how writers are like ghosts, absent-present in the scene.
In a heat haze, the sound of a dog barking prompts her to think about the importance of creating b...