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How reading can improve your love life

Have you ever tried reading aloud with someone else? Have you noticed differences in the reading process?
24 May 2012
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Book fairs are dangerous

Do you ever get carried away in bookshops or at bookfairs, and buy far more than you’d planned? Is it consumerism, or…
23 May 2012
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Test of stamina at Bim Literary Festival, day two

Wow. That was intense. Three hours on a hard bench listening to poetry readings with no break and no refreshments. That’s a…
21 May 2012
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Earl Lovelace at Bim Literary Festival

Trinidadian writer Earl Lovelace was the second attraction last night at Bim Literary Festival. For my report on the first part of…
18 May 2012
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Austin Clarke at Bim Literary Festival

After my unintended gatecrashing of a class with Derek Walcott earlier in the day, this was an event I was actually allowed…
18 May 2012
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Learning from Derek Walcott: Bim Literary Festival, day one

How often do you get to meet a Nobel Prize winner? That was my main rationale for going along to a Master Class with…
18 May 2012
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Great opportunity for unpublished UK writers

If you are an unpublished UK writer with a novel manuscript ready for submission, I’d strongly recommend that you check out the…
14 May 2012
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How to write a book review

Just saw a nice post on Read.Learn.Write which goes into the methodology of writing book reviews, using my novel On the Holloway…
11 May 2012
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How writers generate ideas

One of the most common questions I'm asked whenever I give a talk is "How do you generate ideas?" The honest answer…
7 May 2012

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