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
- I liked doing this i/v! In defence of creative writing programmes. Also shoehorned in a mention of my popular frogs… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
- RT @hhavrilesky: Every day brings a brand new gift! https://t.co/FwmoXVVLq3 1 day ago
- Against my better judgement I went to my gym's Xmas drinks and it was one of the strangest social experiences of my… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 days ago
- We have entered that time of the year where the best-of lists are hemming us in like menacing clouds in a valley twitter.com/TheSpinoffTV/s… 2 days ago
- RT @briangdillon: "It’s as if the essay is alive in a way that other forms are not; as if it possesses human traits and bodily characterist… 4 days ago
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Tag Archives: Tim Upperton
Bad, but not damned: On Tim Upperton
Tim Upperton is the kind of poet who tends to have his poems shared without people asking his permission or paying him money. They’re the kind of poems that you want to share with another person immediately. So you do, which … 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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