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Tag: Richard Ford

Losing My Ambition

  Towards the end of my treatment for cancer in 2006 I had one of the most profound conversations of … More

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Chemo reading

I wrote here recently about losing my ambition as a writer. In case readers are in any doubt, the stuff … More

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Lifesaving Poems: Michael Laskey’s ‘Bike’

Now that we in Britain have started to think of ourselves as the greatest cycling nation since dinosaurs roamed the … More

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