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
- please stop replying to the bush tweet https://t.co/A7xDFlYuqQ 3 days ago
- Sometimes NZ writers say 'the forest' instead of 'the bush' (and they definitely mean 'the bush') because they are… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 days ago
- I’ve recently learned that in another part of the neighbourhood Jerry is known as Original Chonk (The Chonky King).… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 days ago
- RT @MerriamWebster: The nonbinary pronoun 'they' has been added to the dictionary. merriam-webster.com/dictionary/they 4 days ago
- Very nearly ended a poetry book blurb with the words '... and show us what it is to be human' and caught myself just in time 5 days ago
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Tag Archives: public speaking
Problematic
His voice wasn’t all squashed up in his mouth. He was forming the words in his mouth quite well. His pace wasn’t too fast and it wasn’t too slow, he flowed pretty smoothly for most of it. There was … Continue reading
Three things
Here are three totally inconsequential things, going backwards in time. 1. Eventually I’ll write a full post about this, but on the weekend I went to a continuing education course called ‘Speak With Presence’. It was the first of a three-parter. … Continue reading
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