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Jonny Wright explores how to be a rap poet To the uninitiated, there may not seem very much connection between…
How do poets cope with the blank page? Neil Rollinson offers some suggestions. All writers are familiar with the horrors…
Sue Purkiss weights up the pros and cons of going to places you’re writing about. Sue Purkiss wonders whether research…
How Doug Johnstone’s love of islands inspired his writing. Ever since he first fell in love with all things insular,…
Road-menders, ice-cream vans, the pram in the hall… Andrew Sant considers familiar bugbears of the writing life, and how to…
Roy Bainton discovers the hard way that you need hands. After an accident left him with a broken arm, Roy…
On a visit to a Hebridean island, Linda Cracknell conducted experiments, using pebbles and ink, on the passage of time…
Christina Koning explores Berlin, with some favourite novels as her guide. On her first visit to Berlin, Christina Koning packed…
Antony Mason offers an appreciation of Australian Aboriginal Art. Antony Mason’s first encounter with the Aboriginal art of Australia was…
Katherine Roberts considers the fascination horses have always held for young – and older – readers. Since she was a…
Brian Clegg considers one of the pitfalls of original research. The discovery of a previously unpublished document about the eccentric…
The author follows in the footsteps of the famous poet who – almost – visited his home-town. Rob Chapman’s hometown…
