Yatterings

Darn it, missed this yesterday on the Guardian.
Peter Bennet’s poetry workshop covered Walter de la Mare’s poetry in brief (though he is also known as a  writer of fantastic novels as well). De la Mare is one of those forgotten figures whom Clute mentions in the Encyclopedia of Fantasy but actually finding anything by him [...]

Tim Burton is going to direct a version of the Alice in Wonderland stories and work will begin in 2008, according to an interview on scifi.com, commenting
“The stories are like drugs for children, you know?…It’s like, ‘Whoa, man.’ The imagery, they’ve never quite nailed making it compelling as a full story. So I think it’s [...]