Guest blog post: Travelling without a visa, by Finuala Dowling

Travelling without a visa It seems to me that all writing comes from a place of resistance inside – … More

The Creativity Challenge

Below is the text of a PowerPoint presentation that I am giving today at the Directors of Studies Conference 2015, at Port … More

A friend recently asked me if I was writing. I replied, as I always do, saying that it was going … More

In the rift between what is going to happen and whatever we would wish to happen, poetry holds attention for … More

During the mad phase, when everything was a tweet or a share or a retweet, one of my favourite discoveries … More

Sporting occasions are bad. Or the Corbyn result, that was hard. I seem to remember (no one else does) a … More

A few weeks ago I was writing in my own blog, the great fogginzo’s cobweb, about the way I … More

Since I decided to leave Twitter and abscond from Facebook I have been reminded of some of the guiding principles … More

Day four of the Twitter-fast. By the time you read this, day seven. The first thing I notice is the … More

Or perhaps you’re waiting at the bus stop. You could text someone. But if you said ‘no’ to the text, … More

What I want is to – to be present. That’s what I’ve learned. I want to strive for presence, now, … More