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Nicholas Murray praises poetry that dares to get political. Stridency, polemicism, ineffectiveness — political poetry is often criticised. Nicholas Murray,…
Novelist Michael Jecks investigates the historical realism of George MacDonald Fraser. Harry Flashman is a fictional character borrowed from a…
Poetry not only changes the reader — it works on the writer too. John Greening asks how. Poets have always…
Lucinda Hawksley’s quest to see every species of whale has an unexpected conclusion. Lucinda Hawksley is not the first writer…
Researching a novel about a grisly hotel led Michelle Lovric to a grislier reality. The murderous hotel that Michelle Lovric…
Novelist James Wilson tries to conjure history by giving it voice. istorical novelists always risk accusations of pastiche, and never…
Wendy Moore subjects herself to hypnosis — all for the sake of research. Her fear of hypnosis did not stop…
Anita Mason traces the present-day political influence of the postwar novelist Ayn Rand. Few people in Europe even know how…
Bethan Roberts had to dramatise the life of a Welsh goose-breeding artist from glimpses captured in her journals. The artist…
Poet Duncan Forbes surveys the poetic marketplace. Poets seek readers, above all, but they wouldn’t mind a bit of money…
At one of the very edges of human habitation, Kathleen Jones confronts the limits of what a writer can say.…
Poet Gerry Cambridge tells the story of his lifelong love of fountain pens. Poets love associations, says Gerry Cambridge. And…
