Writers are like every other profession – a mixed bunch – perhaps even more so than others
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Showing a poet my work, she cried, “Oh but it’s traditional! There’s a metre.” and returned it as though it was contagious
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The story of Mimmo Lucano and his community of asylum-seekers in the dying village of Riace
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Some time ago a colleague of mine told me not to post or tweet about political things, as I was wont to do
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On Stewart Ennis, his novel Blessed Assurance, and the playwright’s tone and narrative
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At the risk of revealing an obsession, a return to the question of empire
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For most of known history, the majority of society worked the land, a small minority were artisans in towns, and an even smaller minority were the wealthy who owned the land
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