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Writing In The Community

Writing In The Community

...as being rooted in the community. This new commission has encouraged me to think about my own responsibilities as a writer and to consider why community engagement is an often-ignored...
Three Hands Clapping

Three Hands Clapping

...Enron is rich with metaphor, with highly crafted extended monologues, and flights of a creative imagination that portrays ‘tame’ company lawyers as puppets and aggressive commodity dealers as forms of...
Inspiration By Invitation

Inspiration By Invitation

...spell it. It’s hard to imagine a non-fiction commission that could be both so reassuringly constrained and so inspiringly open-ended. Poetry commissions sometimes come with an additional twist: unlike a...
Unseen But Not Unsung

Unseen But Not Unsung

...libretto Good Angel, Bad Angel, based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story ‘Markheim’, had reached the fiddly back-and-forth-to-the-composer stage. Having worked with composer Lyell Cresswell on other operas since then,...

Bridge

...is Editor-in-Chief of Gitanjali and Beyond. Bashabi is Honorary Vice President of the Association of Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS), executive committee member of Scottish PEN, Writers at Risk Committee and...
Typeface

Typeface

...My computer needed updating. There were viruses, security issues, lost floppy disks, corrupted data and frazzled hard drives. And with all this, computers’ time-saving benefits and convenience became diluted as...
The Heroine’s Journey

The Heroine’s Journey

...the journey home. Yet audiences appreciate the compromises, complex implications, and difficult choices redolent of a mature theatre that speaks to the predicaments of individuals and nations. Like Shakespeare. Like...
What Makes Superheroes So Special?

What Makes Superheroes So Special?

...case. An X-Men comic has never had the same approach to character as a serious novel. It’s more comparable to a soap opera. The comics offered the soap opera rewards...

Should I always use a computer?

...have a typewriter. He wrote all his books in longhand. Then presumably he sent it to a typist. Computers are not compulsory. Some people say that they stop the flow...
A Mirror To Life

A Mirror To Life

...comprehensible is elitist. But, as Declan Kiberd points out whilst discussing James Joyce’s famously difficult novel Ulysses, many tasks done by ordinary people every day are highly complex or frustratingly...
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