Thank you to everyone who has commented to me either publicly or in private about my new series of blog … More
Category: Stationery
Lifesaving Lines: The Gift, by Brendan Kennelly
I was at a thing. Very rarely for me, it was my own thing, only my second in front of … More
Pencil
I am returning to the pencil. The premise of which remark signifies consciousness that at some point I left the … More
Notebook
At the start of each academic year, usually when I have known them for a week or so, I make … More
Guest Blog Post: Dear Diary, by Josephine Corcoran
This is the second in a series of Guest Blog Posts that I am hosting this year. More are … More
Inside Lifesaving Poems 4
I have been moving. Not moving house, moving within it. Stuff has come with me, some of it has vanished … More
The blogs I read (4)
Locus Scolus: The New York School of Poets is a thing of wonder and beauty. Named after a 1914 French novel by Raymond … More
A review of the book (in the voice of the book)*
The Book of Things, Ilhan Berk (Salt, 2009), trs. George Messo Open me anywhere § Slugs Pilot Hi V5, … More
Paying attention
Readers of this blog will know I have been thinking a lot about stationery recently. (Actually, that is something of … More
The stationery thing again
My blog post yesterday about the stationery thing provoked more responses than I ever imagined it would. Among the … More
The stationery thing
At the start of each academic year, usually when I have known them for a week or so, I make … More