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Penny Boxall speaks with John Greening about poetry and history, successful and failed poems and advice for young writers. Penny…
With the exception of some very big names and some airport novels, there is simply no money in books. With…
I found myself creating narratives to go with the photographs. Who did those abandoned shoes belong to? I found myself…
Letters, notebooks and diaries testify to an ability to write with tolerable coherence without prior planning. Everything else has me…
Nick Caistor revisits early surrealist ‘anti-novel’, Les Chants de Maldoror. Nick Caistor revisits Les Chants de Maldoror, an early surrealist…
Self-isolation has become so ingrained as to be virtually indistinguishable from addiction. You gravitate to the periphery, outside but looking…
Unfinished poems, beginnings of stories, ideas for plays, an abandoned novel, pieces for radio which never were aired, articles which…
Lucy Flannery owns up to an obsession with stationery, and Alexandra Benedict shares how she brings the senses into writing.…
A friend was so incensed at being sacked from a daily newspaper that she was inspired to write a bestseller.…
There were no clear routes for becoming a writer. Degrees in creative writing had not yet mushroomed at the universities;…
I was once drowsing through a press brunch at Claridge’s in my days as a consumer journalist, when the late…
Robin Blake revisits four novels he read in his youth. Robin Blake considers four novels he read in his youth…
