Ewan
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Ewan Lawrie
The picture is me signing copies of my novel, Gibbous House at Unbound Books HQ in Islington by the canal.
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Impressing Miss Axelrod
Ahh...nostalgia. It's always the music, isn't it? Image author's own, as for its subject, Go Ask Alice...
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Steinmätscher (Muddier of Stones)
I learned something from @LevParikian (Twitter's premier Twitcher if you're interested in birds) this morning. So, as is my wont, I went off on a tangent and wrote this. Image licence is CC-BY SA2.5 source Wikipedia photographer Andreas Trepte.
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Millicent Frome
Doggerel. Image source pinterest. No known copyright issues.
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Tower
No, I'm not explaining this one, you'll work it out. CC-SA 4.0 Original Image by Krzysztof Golik
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Quadripartita Ratio (or Saturday Night at the Disco)
It's not about rhetoric... Image is from DeutscheFotothek an archive of photographic material from the former DDR licence CC-SA 3.0 Germany
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I don't know why
Posted on Fri, 30 Oct 2020
but you are getting better and better. No, I do: it's practise making perfect, or as near as anything can get to that. You need to be looking at another collection soon. This is extremely good work.
Read full commentPosted in Dutch Elm Disease
We
Posted on Mon, 28 Dec 2020
(ok I, but I'm sure that you - at least - feel the same) write about these things to try and make sense of them. For ourselves, yes, but if in writing them we can help others then they MUST be written.
Beautiful, layered writing as usual...
Read full commentPosted in Tawny Owl
I am
Posted on Mon, 09 Nov 2020
speechless. Or at least written-wordless. This bears many more than several readings.
Read full commentPosted in At The East Lake Where I'm Often Drunk, Thoroughly
There will be
Posted on Mon, 10 Feb 2020
...but as you know I'm writing Moffat III at the moment (12,000 words and counting). I always have a vanity project going, whilst I'm writing a novel. It helps to dive off into something else completely unrelated. Usually, The Picture Ranch or...
Read full commentPosted in Powerhousing II
Ah well,
Posted on Wed, 18 Dec 2019
don't we know? "This is John, he...we used to know each other." Joan is about 19, John has been away for 20 years.
Read full commentYes, I know people don't like holes, but I do like clues, rather than telling everything.
Anyway, glad you liked it...
Posted in A Polka Dot Dress
One thing you will
Posted on Thu, 06 Jul 2017
find by doing this, is that your description in any prose you do write will be tighter, more compact, more effective, it's something I was told would happen if I wrote more poetry. I'm not completely sure it has for me, but it will for you....
Read full commentPosted in Tail-end
It's the mothballs
Posted on Tue, 10 Jan 2017
I remember, and the faint smell of Lion pee and Turkish Delight.... hahaha. I do not know anyone who has never explored their parents' wardrobe. When I was 8, my dad's wardrobe had hundreds of football programmes from the 40's and 50's; Rangers...
Read full commentPosted in Grimms5
Welcome back.
Posted on Mon, 15 Feb 2021
What a shame the magazine folded. I expect that will be as familiar a story over the next year as it has been over the last. Fantastic that you chose to put your story here. I sincerely hope you're looking around for other magazines that might...
Read full commentPosted in Letters in the attic
An interesting premise
Posted on Tue, 09 Feb 2021
I'd like to read more.
Read full commentPosted in Caratacus 1
Ahh..
Posted on Wed, 03 Feb 2021
dat McNulty, he's the divvel of a writer.
I feel I could cut the atmosphere in your writing with a knife, or even a heart-shaped hoe.
Splendid.
Ewan
Read full commentPosted in Huroosh!
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