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My stories

A New Year Message

For the past three days I have been editing the final chapter of ‘The Penguin Variations’. So I am finishing it as the year ends. It’s been a good year.

A Christmas Message

I was at friend’s house the other day and he informed me that some of his friends had recently purchased themselves an oil-less deep fat fryer for Christmas.

The Writer is in...

The writer is in. Do you remember those scenes from Charlie Brown? Lucy is the dr, she has a wooden booth, and Charlie Brown goes to visit her.
Cherry

Seasons End

My top 10 books of the year.

Shock! Horror! Plot in Crisis!

John Richardson was interviewed on Front Row this week. For the past 30 years he has been writing the biography of Picasso.

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297 of my comments have received 317 Great Feedback votes

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Agreed. A ray of hope. 

Posted on Wed, 08 Apr 2020

Agreed. A ray of hope. 

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Posted in I Tell Myself This When I Am Afraid

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Glisk and glassiness work so

Posted on Mon, 06 Apr 2020

Glisk and glassiness work so well together. 
 

As Thom Gunn said, One is always nearer by not keeping still. 

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Posted in Walking Away

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Love it. Congratulations. 

Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020

Love it. Congratulations. 

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Posted in Deimos

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The poem is sentimental in

Posted on Thu, 02 Apr 2020

The poem is sentimental in the best possible way. I love the move from whale to herring (and its sorrow) to us. It is comparable to Philip Pullman's way of describing death. We become dust, part of the atmosphere. Or here, of the sea. Wonderful...

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Posted in The Sea is Sentimental

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Another really brilliant

Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020

Another really brilliant first line - so unusual an image. And your poem fits perfectly with the picture. 

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Posted in Barn Owls

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Agree with the above and I

Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020

Agree with the above and I mentioned before that we live in strange times when what would have been fiction is now our reality. The clip I love too... the words all the more poignant than ever. Someone at work said to me yesterday that when all...

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Posted in Whispers

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I liked this - quickly sets

Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020

I liked this - quickly sets the scene, and I like the way it pans out with the phone call. Couple of tiny things. 'fuck you quickly' needs some punctuation. Because I just read it as 'fuck you quickly'. An exclamation mark after 'fuck'? ...

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Posted in Jungle

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It's a great first line.

Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020

It's a great first line. Because everything builds and develops from there. 

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Posted in Starling

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Completely brilliant. A

Posted on Sat, 28 Mar 2020

Completely brilliant. A procession of unusual, startling images that have absolute clarity in their absurdity. And I've seen the wolves, they're at the end of the pier, dancing a slow waltz while sucking on popsicles. 

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Agree with all of the above.

Posted on Fri, 27 Mar 2020

Agree with all of the above. Inspired concise storytelling. Fabulous. And it would make a great little film in itself. 

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