An eclection of insights into the nature of writing and being a writer.Â
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...
The window-dressers of power
While this comment refers to a specific poetry collection, I like it as a worthwhile goal for poetry, or come to think of it, for writing more generally.Its whole intent is to devastate those arrangements which are offered as truth by power's window-dressers...
How to hide a poem (II)
Listening time: under 5 minutes.  This disturbing quotation is striking on several levels.  By the Hungarian poet György Faludy concerning his first few weeks of incarceration by the secret police, it first caught my attention for the sheer feat of composing poetry...
All good publishers have a department of exceptions.
Gabriel Zaid – So Many Books
A visit to the Brontes
When I read the journals of Dorothy Wordsworth I had a yearning to visit the Wordsworth homes in the Lake...
A good day’s shopping
I like this simple shopping list, two major purchases dealt with on the same day. Wonder what happened to the...
Nonsense daubers
Folly, speaking from her light-hearted pulpit, lays into another bunch of self-serious fools, those who write books, or as she...
Two years and counting!
WritingRedux was launched in 2016 on the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth which happens to be Saint Jordi's Day in Spain,...
The magic of great stories
Coming from a superb storyteller, this comment on the secret of the Great Stories is refreshing and insightful. It has long...
Rules and writers
Nikos Kazantzakis, best known as the author of Zorba the Greek, pretty much wipes the floor with literary theorists, quite...
The long history of the tablet
I like when ancient things reappear in modern contexts. At an airport, you can see dozens of people tapping away...
Time and poets
This summary of where Mandelstam places the poet versus the ‘man of letters’ on the time spectrum intrigues me. Yes,...
A record of experiences and growth
Recently I've become curious about how people view journals, what they use them for, and have been experimenting with writing...
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