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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

15 September, 20228 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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Advertising publication of my poem Smoked
I'm delighted to report the publication of Smoked, a poem about my father, in the latest edition of The Poet: Family (vol 2).

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Most popular posts published in 2022

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Michael Rosen and Many Different Kinds of Love (January)
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Writing a wreath – adventures in poetry (February)
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Bruce and the Spider – writing resolutions in 2022 (January)
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Impressions from the SWF22 (August)
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Return to Tema: the search for house and school (March)

Most popular posts from earlier years

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Liminal places: on the threshold – a reading diary (2021)
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Thinking how to translate Jana Kippo (2021)
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Jamestown, Accra: walking through history with Collins and Lee (2020)
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Bringing up the Bodies from Wolf Hall (2020)
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Curse words we all use – but less often nowadays (2021)
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A couple of days in Maastricht (2016)
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