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Category: Notebooks

Late February notebook

Aesthetics of Creating Something This doesn’t just happen: It happens to you. Kenneth Koch, from One Train, p.64 ∞ ‘Even … More

Adam Haslett, Being a Writer, Higher Education, James Baldwin, Keeping a notebook, Kenneth Koch, mindfulness, Notebooks, Poetry, Poets, Robert Creeley, Scaachi Koul, Simon Parke, Tuition Fees, UCU Strike, USS Strike, Writing

February notebook

‘The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to … More

Ada Limon, Adam Haslett, Annie Dillard, Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Birdwatching, Holocaust Memorial Day, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, James Baldwin, Junot Diaz, Keeping a notebook, Leonard Cohen, Maya Angelou, Naomi Shihab Nye, Notebooks, Paul Klee, Pico Iyer, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Reading, Writing, Writing Process

End of January notebook

Blind panic when the anthology I am in arrives. The hunt, ever more despairing, for my poem, certain that they … More

Ali Smith, Andy Brown, Birdwatching, Chinese Poems, Connie Bensley, Cormac McCarthy, Education, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Burnside, Keeping a Journal, Keeping a notebook, Li Po, Notebooks, Sam Hammill, Simon Parke, Stationery, Sue Dymoke, Sven Birkerts, The Crossing

Late January notebook

  […]       you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don’t you are … More

Adorno, Ali Smith, All the Pretty Horses, Andrew Motion, Autumn, Being a Writer, Birdwatching, Cormac McCarthy, E. L. Doctorow, Frank O'Hara, Grace Paley, James Wood, Jonathan Franzen, Karl Ove Knaussguard, Keeping a notebook, Lydia Davis, Motorhead, Notebooks, Observation, Simone Weil, The End of the Story, Writing

Mid-January notebook

Barely any bird-life since the gales. A robin’s song this morning, from behind the curtains. And yesterday one tiny blue … More

Ada Limon, Alan Fletcher, Ali Smith, Annie Proulx, Birdwatching, Commonplace Books, Cormac McCarthy, Edith Wharton, Henri Nouwen, John Ashbery, Jorie Graham, Keeping a notebook, Matthew Zapruder, Notebooks, Seth Godin, The Shipping News, Tomaz Salamun, Twitter

January notebook

Two successes I can claim as a parent: they both love music and football (even if one of them supports … More

Ali Smith, Annie Proulx, Cancer, Chelsea, Henri Nouwen, Jose Gonzalez, Keeping a notebook, New Year's Resolutions, Notebooks, Pauline Boty, Perfume Genius, Poets and notebooks, Poets' Notebooks, Simon Parke, Stationery, Thom Gunn

Why did I write it down?, by Joan Didion

Why did I write it down? In order to remember. Of course, but exactly what was it I wanted to … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creativity, Joan Didion, Keeping a notebook, Notebooks, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Presence, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Teaching Writing, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing a book of poems, Writing Poems, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Notebook

At the start of each academic year, usually when I have known them for a week or so, I make … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Bookbinders Design, Cancer, Clairefontaine, Clairefontaine notebooks, Creativity, DH Lawrence, Life Lessons, Life Writing, Memoir, Notebooks, Poets, Presence, Stationery, Ted Hughes, The stationery thing, Trusting in the Process, Writing, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

Lost notebook

An event of this magnitude Overshadows the destruction of the Berlin Wall And the troubles in the Caucasus. –Robert Rehder, … More

Being Creative, Bruce Chatwin, Creative Habits of Mind, Creativity, Habits of mind, Keeping a notebook, Life Lessons, mindfulness, Notebooks, Presence, Robert Rehder, Stationery, The art of the notebook, The stationery thing, Trusting in the Process, Writers and Stationery, Writing, Writing Poems

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