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Swotting was highly risky in my state comprehensive, where any show of keenness was likely to be met with jibing…
Zoë Howe explores the transformational power of writing and how words can be instruments of change. Zoë Howe on the…
I am a late adopter. I was the last journalist I knew who typed articles, the last who faxed rather…
Writers discuss the book they are currently reading. Michael McMillan, Debjani Chatterjee MBE, Rahila Gupta, Mimi Khalvati, Colin Grant and…
No matter what I am doing, my current work in progress simmers away in snippets of conversation, memories bubbling up,…
Poetry Break: Ian McMillan and Julia Copus discuss classic poems by Robert Frost. Ian McMillan and our host Julia Copus…
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…
Sara Wheeler discusses the fine line between biography and fiction. Sara Wheeler discusses the fine line between biography and fiction,…
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…
