Across poetry sequences, pieces of fiction and other creative processes, there are a number of key characters and images that repeat. These are: – Blue – Alice – Aslan – Kingfisher – Water These have a deeper range of meanings, and are ‘characters’ that I can work with through diverse contexts. Bringing them back again … Read more
The Internet Archive site is a fascinating project with a number of strands. There’s plenty for me to be absorbed by here. The archive has freely accessible material in a number of areas. There are films, live concerts and poetry recitals. There are 10,000 shows stored in the live concert archive. I have to admit … Read more
National Novel Writing Month This looks really good. National Novel Writing Month – or NaNoWriMo for short. It starts on 1st November and participants have until the end of November to write a novel of at least 50,000 words. The full description is on the site – it’s about setting the standards low to make … Read more
We are having a party this weekend, to celebrate me completing my PhD. It took seven years part-time and the end of it feels like a great excuse for a party. I have spent the last 24 hours using every available minute to pull together the party music – I’m trying to put together a … Read more
Margaret J Wheatley I’m reading “Leadership and the New Science” by Margaret Wheatley at the moment. It’s a fascinating read, taking in the breadth of new sciences from quantum physics to chaos theory. I like the way she begins and ends each chapter with a vivid image, and piece of descriptive writing. I’ve given a … Read more
I have just worked out how to get images into my blog. So, I am posting details of the first two booklets that I published last year, together with images from the covers. If you are interested in seeing these booklets drop me an email (email address here). I’ve also put these details on a … Read more
Last night I spent the evening at our local Borders store, browsing and reading and drinking coffee. Oh, and way too much cheesecake. I bought the most amazing CD. It’s an album by Okna Tsahan Zam. He plays the dombra, which is beautiful to hear, but it is his voice which is breath-taking. I know … Read more
it happened quickly when the first shards of light at early morning had glanced over the hills. then was the moment when I fully realised that all this searching collecting of myths, looking beyond beauty and nature would leave me now, emptiness glances across a crowded room people we once respected, open to criticism. inside … Read more
Books arrived from Peter Riley this morning. They included a copy of ‘M: writings 67-72’ by John Cage. I’m really excited about getting this book. I’ve been trying to get hold of some written material by Cage for a while now (maybe 2 years!) and have had no success until now. I’m particularly keen to … Read more
Mike Snider’s Formal Blog and Sonnetarium Mike Snider has been looking at my weblog, and has put a link to it on his site. Well, thanks very much for that! Mike’s various sites are well worth a visit. There’s a link to his weblog over in my ‘Weblogs I Watch’ column to the right. Or … Read more