Computers, and my first in particular
In which I am interviewed about my experience of computers in education and wax lyrical about memories of my first Amstrad.
memory
Black boxes – a meditation on memory and loss
A meditation: on the subject of black boxes, real and metaphorical, and on memory and loss and drowning in a sea of sound.
What is your earliest memory? This is mine.
This is my earliest memory – a memory of my father – together with a poem I’ve put it into. What is your earliest memory?
Atropos and Mnemosyne – a poem about memory loss
His same question, my same answer, again and again. Atropos and Mnemosyne, a poem.
Disparate days in Leeds with Jonathan Kershaw
Disparate days as a student at Leeds with my housemate Jonathan Kershaw, bipolar (manic depressive) and certainly neither gay nor queer.
The Kitchen Diaries & Toast
A review of two books by Nigel Slater, food writer and journalist. The books were presents to me on my recent birthday.
Learning to swim
In the baths today, swimming my 40 lengths, I was trying to remember learning to swim, but the memory’s lost somewhere in the chlorine haze.
Derek – Tilda Swinton on Derek Jarman
Derek: this blog’s first review – really more notes towards a review – I was attending the 2009 edition of the Gothenburg Film Festival.
At the Quill
At the Quill – weekly writing and what to write, my relationship with ink pens and why I chose this name for this category of my website.