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‘I walked down High Street and there was no one about’
WHEN DAVID Bowie entered the studio to record what would become Station To Station he had no songs written and little idea what he wanted to do.
What Do You Mean You Haven't Read...?
Fred Johnston, poet, author, critic
Tourism — How the business of happiness can emerge from this crisis
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was an American writer, better known by his pen name, Mark Twain. Among many achievements, he is credited with the saying “travel broadens the mind”. But something we have learned in recent weeks during this Covid-19 ‘lock in’ is that sometimes staying at home can do that too, or at least it can help refocus the mind.
The sombre apocalypse
Lockdown started in Spain on March 14 but I had already stopped working by then after a client cancelled an English class to tell me that he had been in contact with people who were believed to have tested positive for Covid-19.
Call for writers to join mentoring programme
Are you a new, emerging, or recently published writer? Would you like professional help with your current work-in-progress?
Why you haven't run out of shows to watch on Netflix
A friend emailed me over the weekend stating she had "finished Netflix". It is pretty early in this lockdown to have run out of things to watch so here is a list of TV shows she (and you) might not have seen that are worth watching.
What Do You Mean You Haven't Read...?
Susan Millar DuMars, poet and short story writer
Why you haven't run out of shows to watch on Netflix
A FRIEND emailed me over the weekend stating she had "finished Netflix". It is pretty early in this lockdown to have run out of things to watch so here is a list of TV shows she (and you) might not have seen that are worth watching.
Hidden lives on a Galway tree
In April 1902 Augusta Lady Gregory was working hard at her home at Coole, translating from Irish the myths and legends of Ireland. Somebody had dubbed Coole ‘the workshop of Ireland’, and the phrase went straight to her heart. Her pride in it glows in her letters to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, her one-time lover and life-long friend, and admirer.*