Nicholas Taylor-Collins in front of a bookshelf

Nicholas Taylor-Collins

Literary researcher | Creative reader

Tag: shape

  • Architectural and uncanny shape in Benjamin Myers’s ‘Cuddy’

    Architectural and uncanny shape in Benjamin Myers’s ‘Cuddy’

    Benjamin Myers’s ‘Cuddy’ won the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize. In this post, I examine the importance of shape to the novel. From the plane shapes of rectangular paragraphs to the emotionally rewarding architectural shapes of Durham Cathedral. These shapes reveal the full journey; of the novel’s emotional development.