Blogroll
- A book you might like This is a book you or someone you know might like.
- Bat, Bean, Beam Everyone links to Giovanni Tiso’s blog but I don’t care. It’s too good.
- Elliot Scribblings Londoner Elliot Elam sketches people on public transport.
- Five Dials Five Dials is free online magazine edited by Craig Taylor, who seems to be a genius. In Five Dials no. 32 you can read a piece I wrote about Katherine Mansfield’s birthplace.
- I Like Boring Things Some words that James Ward has written about different things. He is also in charge of the Stationery Club, The London Twirls Project, and the Boring Conference.
- Isinglass Martin Edmond’s wonderful blog.
- Let Me Be Frank Sarah Laing’s compulsively readable cartoony blog on reading, writing, parenting, angsting.
- Oliver Burkeman My favourite writer on self-help. He really hates “The Secret”.
- The Animalarium This blog gladdens the heart. Celebrates animals (worldly and otherworldly) in illustration and design.
- The London Review of Breakfasts Dinner parties are mere formalities; but you invite a man to breakfast because you want to see him. (On the LRB, I have reviewed as Egg Miliband.)
- The Red Room This is (poet and great brain) Sarah-Jane Barnett’s fantastic blog on NZ poetry.
- The Subversive Copyeditor Carol Fisher Saller is my editing hero.
- These Rough Notes I work as an editor at Victoria University Press, and this is our blog.
- Twitter Poetry Night I run this project where you can listen to people on Twitter reading poems.
I’m on Twitter sometimes
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- ‘A full-length image of the Kaka Point lighthouse covers the lid. Jet skis, his dog, boat, mini car collection and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 hours ago
- 'the day before my thirtieth / I hooked up with a mountain / and the mountain took it seriously / now I'm married t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 hours ago
- RT @alicebolin: Was my pleasure to review Ashleigh Young's essay collection CAN YOU TOLERATE THIS for the New York Times (!!!!!) https://t.… 6 hours ago
- This water tracking app is trying to destroy me https://t.co/mBzUWoZmOX 1 day ago
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Category Archives: Interview
A THICK SKIN (part II)
This is the second part in a two-part post about criticism. You can read Part I here. I had a lot of fun putting this little thing together. Well. Is fun the right word? Maybe not. More that it was useful, personally. It … Continue reading
“Most days I will have a hammer in my hand”: An interview with Lindsay Pope
I met Lindsay in 2009 during our MA year at Victoria University. He is first and foremost a poet. Sometimes when I look at myself first thing in the morning, his line “I look like a cardigan from St. Vincent … Continue reading
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“What’s the muck?”: An interview with James Purtill
via Animalarium I met James on a creative writing course at Victoria University in 2009. At our first workshop I was struck by his swarthy tan and his faraway squint, and his long pauses between words, as if he’d just … Continue reading
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Love it, hate it, live it, left it and long for it
London looks like a place that used to be something. Davy Jones, street photographer London is propulsion, it rewards those who push forward. Craig Taylor This weighty account of London is told by its people: the Londoners. Londoners: The Days … Continue reading
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I Would Have to Choose the Shark: An Interview With John-Paul Young
JP Young performs at Happy, 2009 John-Paul Young is my brother. Like me, he was born in Te Kuiti, the King Country of New Zealand and the Shearing Capital of the World. He is the former singer-songwriter-guitarist of celebrated Hamilton band … Continue reading
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Terrestrial Molluscs: An interview with Tim Upperton
Tim Upperton, in knitted form (from Cheezombie on Etsy) Some facts about poet Tim Upperton: He comes from Palmerston North. His first collection of poems is called A House on Fire. He has just bought a new house. His poems and fiction … Continue reading
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This interview will change Oliver Burkeman’s life
via Personal Message Oliver Burkeman is the author of This Column Will Change Your Life, a weekly column in the Guardian about social psychology, self-help culture, productivity and the science of happiness. His widely praised book Help!: How to Become Slightly Happier … Continue reading
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