Working with outlines, doing away with time
The other day I said I’d go and meet H at 1230. We arranged this a couple of hours...
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The vague feeling of love
(A short exercise in “putting the problem into the writing” based on a character from my novel.) The vague...
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Performance at Eat our Words: Newcastle Eat Festival!
As one of a baker’s dozen or so writers, I performed a couple of short pieces on the theme...
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Lee Halpin was too young to die for a story
This article was originally published on the Guardian Northerner Blog I am angry with Lee Halpin. I am angry...
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Watching videos of Madonna
The library was in Ashburton Park, round the corner from where we grew up. I went there and rode...
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Running Hard
Tonight in Edinburgh the Take Tea with Turing anthology was launched at Edinburgh’s Informatics Centre, celebrating the life of...
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Sharkwater
The local Cinema Politica group put on a showing of Rob Stewart’s film Sharkwater. It’s a big audience for...
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Hamish Fulton, Slowalk
This review was commissioned by the artist Mike Collier and the AV Festival for their end of festival catalogue...
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Seeing Red
A group of four sit down in the corner with their porridge and orange juices. I looked up from...
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Letters from the past
Working through way through an email spring clean, an old friend printed and posted to me a dozen poems...
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Why Noise Matters
Originally written for Counterfire.org. A review of Why Noise Matters,which explores an important but often ignored environmental problem, the...
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