On cancer as a ‘fight’

Yesterday former US President Barack Obama tweeted his support of Senator John McCain who has just been diagnosed with brain…

Lost

There I was, minding my own business, trying to sort something out via email when it would have been easier…

His real name was Crispin. Bespectacled, quiffed, bandy legged, Ken wore the aloof expression of the terminally lonely, a tilt of…

I found myself in the position of giving feedback to some writers recently. The writers were teachers who had signed…

A Tuesday, appropriately. (Tuesday being the day I was formally diagnosed.) Poetic, it strikes me now. But at the time,…

On Not Being Anthony Wilson I haven’t always been Anthony Wilson. For a long time I wasn’t even Anthony.…

I was having a coffee with a new writer friend the other day. Not having known each other for very…

Smith Objectionable, mercurial, fierce, wise, bandaged, solitary and irresistible, Phil Smith and I were not close. Only in our…

One of the more interesting paradoxes of analysing the interviews of professional writers during the Teachers as Writers (TaW)…

For a number of reasons –too much grief in my life, too sedentary, too much television, too out…

You can download the PowerPoint of my talk at Mount Kelly College, on 18 April 2017, here: Creativity_a provocation_Mount Kelly College_April…

Rupert Loydell is shouting at the countryside. I have got up at sparrow-fart to drive him to the Blandford…

In the dry months after my cancer treatment, when the visitors stopped visiting and I put all the cards…

I dreamt about my friend X last night. I don’t think I normally dream about him, and don’t recall having…

Today is the last day of NaBloPoMo, that month in the year when someone decides it is a nice idea…

Dear God Do you think you could fix it so that I might have some of Martin’s playfulness, his…

As we draw to the end of NaBloPoMo, I have invited Josephine Corcoran to collaborate with me on a joint-interview.…

It wasn’t much of a day. I was in noodle-mode, sticking things into my day book, quotes and articles and…