An eclection of insights into the nature of writing and being a writer.Â
The magpie writer
Guilty as charged - I had a sense of recognition when I read this. Sometimes it feels less as if I have ideas for writing than that ideas accost me as I stroll about, catching my eye as a bright button might catch the magpie's eye. I pick them up off the street,...
Poems for my family 012 – Thomas
Listening time: under 4 minutes. A poet describes the driving force of his art, not one of fame, trophies and applause, but rather the 'common wages' of the secrets, loves and griefs of ordinary people, who may not even know or care about the poems being written for...
Journal of joy
A delightful definition of journals, by one of history's most assiduous journal writers. A quote to share at the start of a new year, when our resolutions are new-minted and still lustrous.  A journal, a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your...
An inviting writing table
As you know I have a penchant for places which foster the timeless absorption of concentrated reading or writing, or just looking out the window, thinking, or allowing your eye to roam across shelf-stretches of book spines to see if your inner-tuitive librarian...
All good publishers have a department of exceptions.
Gabriel Zaid – So Many Books
Scribbles in the sand
In Couto's superb novel, a disturbed father tries to isolate his sons from life and learning by taking them to...
The aim of aimlessness
This made me think - surrendering to aimlessness to write poetry (and other things? A good letter? A story?). Perhaps...
A great paradox
Heaney tackles the paradox of poetry and other arts, the fact that at one level 'no lyric ever stopped a...
Treat ’em mean to keep ’em keen
This made me laugh, Keats' pithy analysis of the source of English literary brilliance. There are several references in his...
Of berries and wine
Having a love of ink, the variety of its hues and the names people give them, and the chunky inventive...
An inviting writing table
As you know I have a penchant for places which foster the timeless absorption of concentrated reading or writing, or...
No post and plenty of censorship
We don't know how lucky we are, having access to many forms of communication, electronic or postal, and being free...
Time and poets
This summary of where Mandelstam places the poet versus the ‘man of letters’ on the time spectrum intrigues me. Yes,...
Of damp and prolixity
Orlando reveals his bias towards the 18th (or against the 19th) century by noting the turn of the century as...
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