Thinking Monday morning inspiration Honour the miraculousness of the ordinary. Andrew Motion The Guardian, Feb 2010
Literary events Forecasting the future The Society of Young Publishers hit on an interesting idea in a recent issue of its magazine inPrint. They dug up an…
Thinking Seeds I am not much of a gardener. I like the idea of gardening, but the reality of it just doesn’t grab me.…
Reading “Race and Racism in Britain” by John Solomos I’m sure that for sociology students, this book is a very valuable text. It’s very methodical and thorough – it looks at…
Thinking Monday morning inspiration Think with your senses as well as your brain. Andrew Motion The Guardian, Feb 2010
Thinking The only possible system Capitalism, we are told, is the only possible system. Anything else is impractical dreaming. Capitalism delivers prosperity, stability, growth… except when it doesn’t. The credit crunch is nothing…
Reading “In the Castle of My Skin” by George Lamming Reading this book made me realise how much has changed, both in literature and society, in the half century since it was…
Thinking Monday morning inspiration Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something…
Reading “Stone in a Landslide” by Maria Barbal One of the things I have always loved about a good book is the way it takes you into places and times…