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
- Washing machines that get slightly unbalanced because of a towel or something and cause a big stupid scene about it – first against the wall 44 minutes ago
- RT @eileencurtright: Maybe all that's wrong with your novel is that nobody falls without warning into a pit 1 day ago
- A totally bizarre and brilliant long read about Gef the talking mongoose. Settle in lrb.co.uk/v39/n15/bee-wi… 2 days ago
- IDEA: the Tour de Thanks. Winner is the one who says ‘thanks’ the most over a 23-day period without collapsing from exhaustion at any stage 3 days ago
- This is the book cover of the whole 2000s twitter.com/FergusVUP/stat… 3 days ago
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Category Archives: Working
A week goes by. A year
The thing about writing is – I reckon – that it requires a lot of space where you don’t write. You think about nothing or one very small part of a poem you aren’t happy with. Hours go by, days … Continue reading
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
On breathing noisily, when puffed
I have decided to begin breathing noisily again when I am puffed, rather than trying to conceal the breathing. In the past, I must have decided that breathing noisily when puffed was a sign of weakness, and that anyone who noticed … Continue reading
Posted in bicycles, Working
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Don’t you know who I am in my head?
Two or three years ago I taught a course in prose and discovered my students were watching the soap operas every morning and afternoon. I don’t know when they studied. So I watched two or three just to see what … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Poetry, Social media, Working
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Driven (A Poem)
I grew up in a small team and when I became leader I carried it with me, first on my shoulders, then in my hair, then knitted closely into my jersey. My internal organs provided support. My last post was … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Working
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I love my leather jacket
I’ve been thinking about book covers lately, because I have a poem book coming out sometime soon, and I need to decide what kind of thing will be on the cover. I guess I’ve always been drawn to improvised-looking, expressive, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Working
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On carrying a notebook around
A recent attempt at “carrying a notebook around” Carrying a pocket notebook everywhere with me is my favorite hobby. – Person on annoying blog about being a better writer Take Care of Your Little Notebook Charles Simic, New York Times … Continue reading
Posted in Memory, Working
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