Barbara Adair – Researcher and Writer

Unpublished Writing

Buildings of Tokyo

by on Nov.07, 2011, under Unpublished Writing

In the 16th century, the technological wonderment that is Tokyo, was a small castle town called Edo. In 1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu, a militarily powerful shogun, established his feudal government there and so it became Japan’s political centre. In1868, during the Meiji Restoration, the emperor moved his capital from Kyoto to Edo. He renamed it Tokyo, the Eastern Capital.

Tokyo today is Tokyo: blazing violent electric stars, (continue reading…)

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Buying Beads in Tunisia

by on Dec.05, 2010, under Unpublished Writing

Tunisia is situated at the northern most bulge of Africa, it thrusts out toward Sicily and marks the division between the eastern and western Mediterranean Sea. (continue reading…)

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Coffee

by on Mar.15, 2010, under Unpublished Writing

COFFEE IS FUN

Yigaceffe – an aroma of the fruity apricot, as the word curls around your tongue you taste the smell, (continue reading…)

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A Mermaid’s Tale

by on Mar.15, 2010, under Unpublished Writing

A MERMAID”S TALE

There is only a scarred wooden desk and an upright plastic chair in the room. (continue reading…)

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Massingir, Mozambique

by on Aug.20, 2009, under Unpublished Writing

 

 

I pack ‘Kathy Acker’ in the safety of my suitcase; faux infantile doodles, (continue reading…)

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