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Month: October 2021

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Pilgrim, Riddly and setting free the turtles

11 January, 202227 October, 2021

A memory and a review of Riddly Walker, Turtle Diary and Pilgermann, ten years after the death of their author Russel Hoban.

Categories Commonplace
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Actual author meets implied reader – or doesn’t

20 October, 202120 October, 2021

In which we consider the author, the author’s imagined reader and the author’s actual reader, and the gaps between them.

Categories At the Quill
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Stepping through the gates of autumn

12 January, 202213 October, 2021

A photo essay about stepping through the gates of autumn in various years – illustrated with October photos mostly from GBG365.

Categories Gallery, Images, Photo essay
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An Autumn Haunted Cinquain – a seasonal poem

7 October, 20216 October, 2021

An Autumn Haunted Cinquain is a poem of horror and fog – and about words and wordplay on Twitter. A poem from 10 years ago, revisited.

Categories Articulations, Poem

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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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