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As a struggling novice poet in Belfast in the dark days of the 1970s, I’d have been pleased to learn…
The natural world became a place for the growing urban middle classes to escape. Into this new psychological landscape came…
I was a mini-me Melvyn Bragg, with a broadcasting bailiwick and books of my own. Scottish Television’s housetrained house poet.…
Writing is a bit like dreaming, or day-dreaming. You write to clarify something inside your head. Writing is a bit…
Donny O’Rourke explores how his Catholic upbringing inspired and shaped his writing career. Donny O’Rourke explores how his Catholic upbringing…
If you don’t care about what you write passionately, how will you endure it, and why on earth should your…
The deadline for this piece was Christmas Eve, but that was also the deadline for buying presents for the family.…
In ‘My Genre’s Status’, RLF writers speak about working in genres that are under-valued or looked down on. In the…
I am typing with two thumbs in the early morning; still in bed, half immersed in a hypnagogic state. As…
A friend at Caltech asks, are you a dilettante? You are not. You are very focussed, just not on PhD…
Brian McCabe recalls the unconventional teacher who encouraged his first outing as a poet. Brian McCabe recalls the early influences…
A writer in London has the ever-present possibility of going out of the door and into a space shared with…
