I enjoyed reading all of these. Thanks to Nic May, Laura Dron and others. Amazing story about couple who found their baby on the New York subway What could possibly go wrong? They’ve really thought this one through Educational Murmuration
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sLINKY SUNDAY
Here are the links I’ve liked the most this week. I hope you like them too. wonderful pictures interesting corrective Clare Foster, Gardens Editor of House and Garden has a lovely new blog Polish poetry from Ravensbruck strange, ingenious, fascinating…
sLINKY SUNDAY
I follow and am ‘friends’ with a lot of writers, and others, on facebook and twitter. I often stumble across links that they post and I think are interesting or uplifting in some way. Sometimes I’m directed to links on…
Fear
I’ve written about fear before I think, even if only on twitter. Fear drives me to the kettle n hundred times a day. Fear leads me to write poetry instead of my novel. That’s quite a productive use of fear.…
Andrew Motion and his encouraging gin problem
I went to see Andrew Motion reading his poetry at his alma mater St Anne’s College, Oxford, courtesy of the Oxford University Poetry Society, a few nights ago. I have seen him read before and he reads beautifully. He also…
Tagged with: Andrew Motion, bereavement, loss, Writing poetry
Posted in censorship, creativity, life writing, literature, Poetry, Writing
Posted in censorship, creativity, life writing, literature, Poetry, Writing
Limits
Wasn’t it the Austrian-Jewish-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein who said ‘whereof you cannot speak, thereof you must be silent’? Well I never fully understood Wittgenstein beyond loving his idea that we can prove the existence of other people by the existence…
Tagged with: challenging texts, limits, social skills, Stella Duffy, Suzanne Moore
Posted in censorship, criticism, feminism, literature, Poetry, women, Writing
Posted in censorship, criticism, feminism, literature, Poetry, women, Writing
Banned words
I REMEMBER my brother as a seven-year-old leaning over our garden fence and shouting ‘Bum, bum, willy, willy’ at the new neighbours. From the lofty heights of my eight years I explained that this was just a ‘phrase’ he was…
Posted in Writing
In which I win Blog of the Year Award
I have to thank Tonya Cannariato, a writer, editor and reviewer I know solely from twitter and other social media (especially Triberr) for thinking of me. A lot of other bloggers have won this too. But I am very grateful…
Milking the maggots
Not to milk the maggots — although what a gift they were — but I did get some interesting responses to my post. Some readers were kind enough to comment on the post right here on the blog, and that’s…
Tagged with: Happy New Year
Posted in characters, creativity, ethics, feedback, friendship, life writing, Writing
Posted in characters, creativity, ethics, feedback, friendship, life writing, Writing
