Poetry Monthly – August Hello all and thanks to people who contributed to the Poetry Monthly theme for July – Where I Write. As usual, quality and range was impressive. Here are some poems to go back to: https://www.abctales.com/story/ewan/random-access-memory https://www.abctales.com/story/linda-wigzell-cress/writing-move https://www.abctales.com/story/rhiannonw/written-where-0 Now, on to August. Picture this - I’m sitting in a swing seat in a...

The Tidy House first came out in 1982. It is 'differently brilliant.' The book The Tidy House is written as a group effort by Carla, Lindie and Melissa, three 8year old schoolgirls in East London who their teacher, Carolyn Steedman taped. So the story itself is written by the girls and presented by Carolyn. The girls appear to have had fun with their homespun saga of Mums, Dads, troublesome little boys, birthday treats, the family cat, Polkadot...

This year because I've been chased about by wicked people - in a kind of half clan war cum gosh its been ages since we last bullied you kind of drama and now you're so poor - that means we can really torment you! So Wake up from the Amnesia you've suffered over 50 years since the operation to remove the brain tumor... it's a strangely enlightening positive in a negative wrapper...

Posted by airyfairy on Fri, 25 Aug 2017 This week's Story of the Week grabbed me right from the start. TJW's 'This Is My Rifle...This Is My Gun' will stay with you for a long time. Owing to space restrictions on the site it's in two parts: https://www.abctales.com/story/tjw/my-rifle-my-gun https://www.abctales.com/story/tjw/my-rifle-my-gun-end Poem of the Week is Ewan's lyrical, hypnotic 'Counting'. This lodges in your mind like the most...

This week's Story of the Week grabbed me right from the start. TJW's 'This Is My Rifle...This Is My Gun' will stay with you for a long time. Owing to space restrictions on the site it's in two parts: https://www.abctales.com/story/tjw/my-rifle-my-gun https://www.abctales.com/story/tjw/my-rifle-my-gun-end Poem of the Week is Ewan's lyrical, hypnotic 'Counting'. This lodges in your mind like the most pleasant of earworms, and you may find yourself...

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/wasting-away-the-truth-about-anorexia My mind went blank and I started to type Alzheimer’s into the search box of Channel 4’s programmes. In a way that’s instructive. You can just start again, wipe out what went before and retype. We are learning about Alzheimer’s. I can throw in phrases like amyloid plaque. Perhaps do a simple drawing of what it means in a cave of dendrites. But I don’t really know what it...

Iain Banks (1985) The Wasp Factory. I’ve read this book before and after reading it again I kinda remembered what happened in the end. But I didn’t appreciate it as a work of genius, the kind of thing I’d like to write, as I do now. Perhaps in the week that Philippa Gregory took time out slate other writers and make it clear she sees herself as the big I AM ( https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/aug/14/philippa-gregory-lazy-and-...

Posted by Philip Sidney on Fri, 18 Aug 2017 There have been so many wonderful pieces this week, the IP really struck a chord and resulted in much insightful and touching writing. In the end I've gone for the dreamy and surreal with Poem of the Week being Sean Mcnulty's Poetry Monthly piece: https://www.abctales.com/story/sean-mcnulty/treetops Story of the Week is rosaliekempthorne's warm hug of a tale: https://www.abctales.com/story/...

There have been so many wonderful pieces this week, the IP really struck a chord and resulted in much insightful and touching writing. In the end I've gone for the dreamy and surreal with Poem of the Week being Sean Mcnulty's Poetry Monthly piece: https://www.abctales.com/story/sean-mcnulty/treetops Story of the Week is rosaliekempthorne's warm hug of a tale: https://www.abctales.com/story/rosaliekempthorne/burning-bright I do hope this week's...

I bought this book for one pence on Amazon. I think it’s overpriced, but I don’t want my money back. The dedication in the book is to Bryan Moyne and Diana Mosley. I don’t know who Bryan is, but Diana, friend of Hitler, married Sir Oswald Mosley, Vile Bodies, indeed. I wanted to have a look at this book because Selina Todd mentions it, in her history, The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class . Characters in Vile Body, think here of...