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Does travelling by train encourage creativity? Jonathan Tulloch thinks so. Jonathan Tulloch considers ways in which train travel can stimulate…
James McConnachie wonders if a childhood accident might account for his life-long fascination with lost things. ‘Lost objects and unreliable…
A question most poets get asked Should poetry be about something — other than itself? asks John Greening, considering some…
Poet Kona Macphee confronts the challenge of the Blank Page. Every writer knows the terror of Blank Page Syndrome, and…
Screenwriter Hugh Stoddart describes the ins and outs of producing original scripts and adaptations for the cinema. ‘A screenplay is…
Susan Fletcher discovers how writing resembles archeology. The connections between writing and digging – as explored in Seamus Heaney’s eponymous…
Deborah Chancellor discovers that the most unprepossessing commission can have its pleasures, if approached in the right frame of mind.…
Former obituaries writer Nick Caistor considers how the press learned to say goodbye. Once every newspaper’s chilliest corner, the obituaries…
Playwright Brian McAvera squares up to Samuel Beckett. Can a British or Irish playwright ever escape the influence of Samuel…
Paul Sayer considers the ‘seething brawny’ novels of the working-class north. The great novels of the northern, working-class male experience…
Cynthia Rogerson leafs through the landmark letters of her life. ded for publication but that does not lessen their potential…
Creative or quixotic? Frances Byrnes dared to turn ballet into broadcast radio. Speech radio is ‘bad at abstraction’, Frances Byrnes…
