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No matter what I am doing, my current work in progress simmers away in snippets of conversation, memories bubbling up,…
Some poems change you more than others. Anne Sexton said that in poems, you write what you don’t know yet.…
Kashtanka is taken in by a clown, who runs his own theatre show, training a cat, a goose and a…
The rage was building… stoked by subterranean rejections of all sorts. Going back to childhood, to the womb, to before…
I was offered a place at Goldsmiths to read History. I didn’t like history, but it was my ticket out…
The articles I later wrote about this extraordinary trip may have helped sell my novel, who knows? I was fired…
I opened myself up to the learning process, committing time and money to improving my craft. I opened myself up…
When life began to be all about organising carers, care homes, sale of the family home, I surprised myself by…
I imagined that by this point in his evening marking session, the tough, Welsh, rugby-playing Mr Thomas would be wiping…
If I can’t think how to make something work, or make a seam seem seamless, I put square brackets around…
If potential readers know who Brian Clegg is and what my books are like, they’re more likely to buy the…
I’ve written family memoir that blends novelised biography with history and travel. Occasionally my work has bamboozled staff in bookstores.…
