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Month: July 2020

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Deborah Warwick, my grandmother – a memoir

16 August, 202030 July, 2020

Deborah Warwick – Debbie – my grandmother shared a birthday with me on 30th July. I think of her every year on this date. I still miss her.

Categories Articulations, Memoir
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Published Poet – Flying with Icarus

2 August, 202022 July, 2020

Flying with Icarus. For the second time this year I find myself a published poet. This posts relates the stories behind my four poems published in The Poet

Categories At the Quill, Stops and Stories
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Fat books take longer to read – a reading diary entry

2 August, 202016 July, 2020

Fat books take longer to read, disrupting your reading resolutions – but they can be glorious: a reading diary entry. White Teeth and Wolf Hall.

Categories Reading diary, Reviews
Flying to Accra

Flying to Accra – in 1964 and 2018

2 August, 20208 July, 2020

Flying to Accra. This post continues my account of our my trip with Mrs SC to Ghana for my 60th birthday, This week’s post is about getting there.

Categories Memoir, Stops and Stories
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Panic on the writing course – writing diary

2 August, 20202 July, 2020

A panic attack was perhaps not the best way to start my participation in the six week Novel Writing Essentials course with Bill Ryan as tutor.

Categories At the Quill, Writing diary
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Far Flung: An anthology of stories, articles and poems - published in November 2020 - includes two of my short stories and a poem.

You may also like to read my blog post about Far Flung and about my writers group.

Published poet (again)

The Poet magazine published another four of my poems in its Summer: On the Road edition. You can buy a copy (Kindle or print) by following this link.

Red Planet magazine
Red Planet magazine published my short science fiction story "Patchwork" in its March 2020 edition. You can download a copy as a PDF ($3) by following this link.

The Poet magazine published my poem "September the Diva" as the first poem in its Winter: The Seasons edition. You can download a free copy as a PDF by following this link. Or buy a print copy from Amazon - a link from the same page.

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Most popular posts from 2020

Princess Uncumber
Princess Uncumber – a retold tale
Flying to Accra
Flying to Accra – in 1964 and 2018
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Far flung writing: telling stories from a distance
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Why I Really Don’t like Kindle
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Enjoy heritage rail in these delightful pictures!

Most popular posts from earlier years

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In the Dieweg Cemetery
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The Gothenburg disco fire – 20 years on
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Book Boxes of Brussels – Les boites à livres
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The worst journey in the world (redux)
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Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands – a review

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