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There Is Always The Other Side…

There Is Always The Other Side…

When I first read Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys I was just twenty years old. At school I had read Dickens, Shakespeare, Yeats, Fitzgerald, but in the years before...
Flow Versus Feed

Flow Versus Feed

Gradually but inexorably, the outside world slips away. Concentration intensifies as the butterfly mind falls silent, relinquishing its habitual inner monologue. Time passes unnoticed; seconds slide into minutes, into hours....

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How I Fell In Love With My House In Lockdown

How I Fell In Love With My House In Lockdown

A few weeks into lockdown a strange phenomenon occurs. A blackbird appears to be singing its little heart out in our tiny en-suite shower room. The full-throated song is so...
Spilling Off The Page

Spilling Off The Page

First meeting. First question. ‘What’s your practice?’ ‘I write. I write plays.’ ‘Yes, but what’s your practice?’ I feel out of my depth, out of my language. I’m not a...

Abstracts, tone, unity of style

Abstracts Some departments and institutions stipulate that your dissertation has to be prefaced with an abstract. If you’ve read the section on ‘Scientific writing’ you will have seen the definition...
Type ‘R’ For Recovery

Type ‘R’ for Recovery

Writing for emotional survival is a well known therapy. Release comes through using words as a purge, or as a mechanism to achieve perspective, which helps control or channel destructive,...
At The Edge Of The World

At The Edge Of The World

I’m in a Zodiac with five other people bouncing up the Hecate Strait off the west coast of British Columbia. We’re doing about 30 knots against a flood tide with...
Shamans And Psychopomps

Shamans and Psychopomps

Le Bugue is a picturesque and unassuming French provincial town, of the sort that has so often seduced the British imagination: winding, cobbled streets, pitched red tiled roofs, little restaurants...
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