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.
- 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 Subversive Copyeditor Carol Fisher Saller is my editing hero.
- The VUP blog I work as an editor at Victoria University Press, and this is our blog.
- Twitter Poetry Night I ran a project where you could listen to people on Twitter reading poems.
I’m on Twitter sometimes
- RT @modernletters: ‘A compelling, brilliantly original novel about life in the era of surveillance capitalism, when society prefers not to… 1 day ago
- RT @VUPBooks: We are delighted to announce this brilliant new novel by @PipAdam - being published in June. Cover art by Russell Kleyn. http… 1 day ago
- Pip's new novel kind of still has me speechless. She is too good to us twitter.com/FergusVUP/stat… 1 day ago
- I have a gym etiquette q. Someone was taking loudly for ages on the phone at the gym. Then they started doing lunge… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 days ago
- I wrote about drivers and cyclists again. Sorry. (Paywalled, but non-subscribers can enjoy not reading it) nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news… 4 days ago
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A bike ride with James Brown
I’ve been a big fan of James Brown’s poems for a long time. The first poem of his I read was ‘Loneliness’, in 2001. It’s probably still his most well known poem, all these years later. I wonder if James is … Continue reading
