Couldn't resist this – I've just been sent a link to a website for The Literary Gift Company, and they have all kinds of cool book-related things. My personal favourites: the George Herbert book handbag, the A Brief History of Time clock, the Go Away I'm Writing coffee mug (doesn't everyone need one of those?), and …
Writing beyond
I'm reading the first book – an Advance Reader Copy, no less! – of Helen Lowe's keenly anticipated Wall of Night series, The Heir of Night. Enjoying it enormously so far. It's classic fantasy, complete with a more-than-usually-interesting proto-heroine in Malian. But there are twists that I recognise as uniquely Helen – the semi martial-arts …
worlds in sand
I try to keep posts here at least tangentially related to the world of poetry and writing, but I couldn't resist sharing this. It's a 24 year old Ukranian, Kseniya Simonova, from Ukraine's Got Talent! She draws with sand on a lit table, and the images are projected onto a screen behind her. And it …
Strange Companions
I'm teaching Sharon Olds tomorrow at Polytech, so this week I've been re-immersing myself in her work. I'd forgotten how good it is. You remember the sex, the violence, the big-ticket melodrama of her relationship with her father. But I'd forgotten how much she writes of sheer physical joy – how good it feels to …
There are Some Books I am Just Not Meant to Have
I think that the Gods of Books have been watching me again. Or possibly it's the Book Gods' mischievous little brother – the one who makes sure that the last copy of the book you desperately want is being held by someone who's obviously more interested in a long gossip with someone else just as …
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A Dark Feathered Art 