JOSEPH RIZZO NAUDI

NARRATIVE OF HIS BEARD

March 2024

Collage text commissioned by Spread The Word for the Deptford Literature Festival 2024 magazine.

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An elder white man with a voluminous white beard. He sits comfortably, facing us and with his left hand raised as if to emphasise a point he is making or to gesture towards his beard. Beneath half-open lids, his left eye looks in our direction while his right eye is cast downwards and askance.
A print of an elder white man with a voluminous white beard. He sits comfortably, facing us and with his left hand raised as if to emphasise a point or to gesture towards his beard. Beneath half-open lids, his left eye looks in our direction while his right is cast downwards and askance.

James Holman by John Richardson Jackson, 1848
© National Portrait Gallery, London

NARRATIVE OF HIS BEARD is a collage text composed of edited extracts from:

A Voyage Round The World by James Holman, 1834

Vacation Rambles & Thoughts by T. N. Talfourd, 1845

Men I Have Known by William Jerden, 1866

Francis Parkman by H. D. Sedgwick, 1904

These sources were originally researched by Jason Roberts in his biography of James Holman, A Sense of the World (2006)