One person we should be haunted by at GHT is Isaac Watts - not the old-fogeyish statue near So'ton Central Library but the twelve-year-old who in 1685 waited outside whilst his mother visited his father (imprisoned in GHT for religious dissent). If there's a local poet who specializes in writing verse for children, (s)he could do worse than imagine young Isaac finding a surrogate father in Daniel Foe (later Defoe) and accompanying Foe as he headed for the battlefield of Sedgemoor.
One person we should be haunted by at GHT is Isaac Watts - not the old-fogeyish statue near So'ton Central Library but the twelve-year-old who in 1685 waited outside whilst his mother visited his father (imprisoned in GHT for religious dissent). If there's a local poet who specializes in writing verse for children, (s)he could do worse than imagine young Isaac finding a surrogate father in Daniel Foe (later Defoe) and accompanying Foe as he headed for the battlefield of Sedgemoor.
Privileged to hear you perform this at Stanza group recently. Love the way you blend tragedy, history, and geography with humour.
excellent - also worth remembering that 'hauntology' and 'ontology' sound the same in French