With the weather getting wetter, the evenings getting darker, and the days starting to get a little colder...the threshold has been crossed and I'm drawing the curtains and lighting a room to settle and read. Here are two of my reading piles as we head towards winter 2022, whatever that may bring. Yevgenia Belorusets - … Continue reading Heading Towards Winter: Reading
Category: On Reading
Photograph of stacked books. From bottom to top the titles are: Dubliners; Murder in the Monto/ The Geometer Lobachevsky; This Train is For: Keepsakes; Seven Steeples; Dolly Considine's Hotel. As followers of this blog will know, much of what I love doing is chatting to other writers, artists and readers. This week some beautiful book … Continue reading Exciting Book Post: Future Writers/Artists Chats
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Doris Sommer in her article "Art and Accountability" (which investigates, among other things, cultural agency), declares that "Constraint is a condition of creativity, not a nemesis." In this, a time of world-wide constraint, it is worth turning to our creative impulses and seeing how they behave. Out on a hill walk with my daughter, I … Continue reading Writers Read: Vanessa Gebbie “The Coward’s Tale” (Re-post from July 2012)
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