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Tag: writing
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Letters to Live Poets at fifty: sound as ever
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10 min read
“No notes are given as I can’t remember all of the sources.”
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Bernard O’Dowd: rewriting the colonial wizard of Oz
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6 min read
What happens when you cross a rhyming sonnet (written on the eve of the federation of Australia) with a 21st-century, post-avant sensibility?
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“whanging in the absence of wind”
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#firstworldproblems
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1 min read
i’m sitting here writing a poem (or at least pretending to) while a photographer shoots me with a wide-angle lens. of course it’s fake – this isn’t even my office, rather the media lab at yeonhui in north-west seoul, a thousand miles from home(s), months ago, a million species of weird- ness, like a bastardised…
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Hilary Mantel on Catholicism, reality and rebels
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2 min read
In the ideal world, all writers would have a Catholic childhood, or belong to some other religion which does the equivalent for you. Because Catholicism tells you at a very early age the world is not what you see; that beyond everything you see, and the appearance – or the accidents as they’re known –…
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Literary experimental travel: via your bookshelf
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6 min read
As any avid reader knows, the journey of the mind is the greatest voyage of all. Regardless of where you are or the state of your finances, literary experimental travel gives you a ticket to ride—even though your physical destination may be no further than your nearest bookshelf or library. Literary experimental travel gives you…