Excellent news!!

Love Anne Sexton

Short video on one reason why having children might help us write. Ps my workshop on Starting Late is next Tuesday at 6pm UK time. Email met for details: [email protected]

Elegant volume for a proof!

Ah. Need to look again at the diary. 😉

Wow. I’ll be there, all being well.

Are you actually doing this!?

This way of referring to something as “ideological” (meaning something like a biased, inflexible set of ideas) is itself ideological!

I think that was roughly it.

Not my assembly, but a friend: the eccentric Shakespearean critic G Wilson Knight was invited to speak at their school and after quoting from King Lear, started taking his clothes off.

Anyone know if it’s possible find out in advance how much (if anything) the ALCS pays you? I believe it’s next week?

Today’s normal is tomorrow’s gaudy ridiculous trash

Rilke

I’ll have a think

As September opens out, it is time to return to your writing. I'm doing online tutorials and greatly enjoying it. Email me and I'll explain: [email protected]

Yes, his books are utter shite. It is an outrage that celebs can get children's books into bookshops so easily whilst genuinely talented writers are scrimping and scraping. But Walliams is a particularly egregious (love using that word) example.

You should compile an anthology of poetry. I would buy it.