Writers Chat 60: Greg Dinner on “A Requiem for Hania” (Ogham & Dabar Books: Clare, 2022)

Cover of "A Requiem for Hania" showing sepia photograph of railway tracks with ice on them and a forest in the distance Greg, You are very welcome to my WRITERS CHAT series. Congratulations on your third novel, A Requiem for Hania (Ogham & Dabar Books: Clare, 2022). Let’s start with the structure. A Requiem for … Continue reading Writers Chat 60: Greg Dinner on “A Requiem for Hania” (Ogham & Dabar Books: Clare, 2022)

Writers Read: Vanessa Gebbie “The Coward’s Tale” (Re-post from July 2012)

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)

The Holding Cell Reading

I'm delighted to be reading live on YouTube on Saturday, 9th May at 8pm kindly hosted by Simon and Rozz over at The Holding Cell: Writers Reading Live from Their Homes So tune in (click above or this link), sit back, and enjoy my short reading - prose and poetry - from Duality, the publication from … Continue reading The Holding Cell Reading