Jack Quirk

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Ph.D. candidate at Brown | Assistant Editor at NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction

Cricketer Learie Constantine holding a cricket ball.
Rover Thomas Joolama, Bedford Downs Massacre, 1985, earth pigments and natural binders on canvas, 95.7 x 179.7 x 4.2 cm, Janet Holmes à Court Collection
Screenshot of Rotten Tomatoes page for the movie Reagan (2024). 18% of critics like the film, 98% of website users.
Evans? Yes, many a time I came down his bare flight Of stairs into the gaunt kitchen With its wood fire, where crickets sang Accompaniment to the black kettle’s Whine, and so into the cold Dark to smother in the thick tide Of night that drifted about the walls Of his stark farm on the hill ridge. It was not the dark filling my eyes And mouth apalled me; not even the drip Of rain like blood from the one tree Weather-tortured. It was the dark Silting the veins of that sick man I left stranded upon the vast And lonely shore of his bleak bed.
[S. Andrews, Sledgehammers]