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I see writing for publication as a contract. I make up stuff that I hope will inform, entertain, scare, thrill…
I joined the Barbara Pym Society and attended their conferences in Oxford, where I bought Pym swag and home-made quince…
When I’m in editing mode I almost can’t read other writers’ work, because everything feels overwritten. I can’t stop my…
My speech emerged so late, and so mangled, that it was experienced by others as either foreign or gibberish; in…
Chris Arthur asks whether writers and readers should be concerned by the rapid development of AI-generated text. Chris Arthur considers…
Different spaces. Different states. They’ll jostle and shoulder each other. Important stuff will get pushed out on either side. Different…
Gwyneth Lewis speaks with John Greening about being a national poet, her global sailing adventures and the experience of severe…
If only you could have the friendship of fellow-poets, the respect of your peers! But all that’s some years in…
There are male writers who think being a writer will impress the ladies, which it never does. Best say you’ve…
I’m not the kind of poet whose work is archivable in the conventional way. Only a forensic IT specialist would…
Penny Boxall explores tapestry making and how the craft of weaving has influenced her poetry and fiction. Penny Boxall explores…
I became mildly obsessed – okay, not so mildly – with a friend who described herself as an ‘arch-planner’. I…
