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Norman MacCaig notably built up quite a body of poems about the animals and birds you are likely to encounter…
I’ve always had vivid dreams. Frequently, though, they don’t make for interesting writing. They remain locked in their own internal…
It is not the original idea that is important, so much as the subsequent sifting process. Is this really a…
The unwritten play becomes so tantalisingly wonderful, surprising, profound: — why spoil its hypothetical brilliance by encasing it in specific…
Elizabeth Cook considers how moments of vitality and connection make writing come alive for the reader. Elizabeth Cook considers how…
Writers discuss their favourite book in translation. Caroline Brothers, Robbie Hudson, Jon Mayhew, Emma Darwin, Fraser Grace and Helen Grant…
Is this how you know that a particular genre of writing is not for you? You consort with it for…
In “Location and the Writer”, Caroline Sanderson compares memory with reality, Paul Dodgson returns to a place he once escaped,…
For every play performed, script broadcast or book published, there comes another, very public, rejection: the bad review. For every…
That lengthy exile from the world of words not only halted my novel, it made the terrible thing itself so…
I tried, really I did. I meditated in a prayer circle, attended a book reading, ate an expensive organic breakfast…
When I was on the judging panel for the Man Booker Prize, we had to read around a hundred and…
