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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...
A great paradox
Heaney tackles the paradox of poetry and other arts, the fact that at one level 'no lyric ever stopped a tank'.  Yet they may just steel those who are stopping tanks, or help the rest of us understand what it takes to stop one. Or perhaps they can help keep the...
All good publishers have a department of exceptions.
Gabriel Zaid – So Many Books
Writing to kick up your heels
Having just re-read Virginia Woolf's Orlando after a third-of-a-century hiatus, I revelled in the liveliness and playfulness of both the...
The art of story-telling
Henry Miller is himself a wonderful writer, and this comment about a critical element of successful story-telling took me by...
Diving in head first
Keats was a bold player, keeping his eye determinedly focussed on achieving enduring greatness, not on the fads and fashions...
Art to amplify experience
Always interested in how people view the point or at least the benefit of literature and other arts. Â Here is...
Writing with one’s whole person
A lovely view of how writing can feel when you are in the full flow of it, writing from the...
Fine writing, fine doing
My earliest impressions of Keats were as a languishing poetic type, not a man of action. Now, after getting to...
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...
Portrait of a writer
Iris Origo (1902-88) was an English writer who grew up in Italy and married an Italian. Together they bought and...
Pencil and paper
Steinbeck wrote with pencil on the ubiquitous American yellow pad. Computers and word-processing came too late for him, and so...
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