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Mmmmm. Lovely. I really like
Posted on Tue, 31 Dec 2019
Mmmmm. Lovely. I really like the visual quality of this, but also what reads as a fitting/well chosen metaphor to me. I love how you seem to have developed that into the description. I'm a bit stuck with form / layout at the moment, but you've...
Read full commentPosted in Wood Mouse
The very thing! :))
Posted on Sun, 05 Jan 2020
The very thing! :))
Read full commentPosted in Island Hideaway 11 - The Finnish Scallop Industry
Love the metaphor, Ewan.
Posted on Thu, 12 Dec 2019
Love the metaphor, Ewan.
Pity the cabin boy.
I take First Mate Mogg is safely down below.
Read full commentPosted in Full Sail
Sounds fantastic!
Posted on Thu, 28 Nov 2019
Sounds fantastic!
Get involved! :)
Lovely very descriptive piece, just as long as it needs to be. Lovely reveal reminds me of how we were taught to "unwind" large trucks towards the exit of a roundabout.
Read full commentPosted in gloaming
I'm doing a part time
Posted on Sun, 17 Nov 2019
I'm doing a part time contemporary (at the moment) based one. It doesn't feel like we're into the meat of it at the moment. Been reading lots and writing my first summary responses - a kind of reflection. We have an overall one to write in...
Read full commentPosted in Diversion
I've got dozens of pages in
Posted on Sun, 17 Nov 2019
I've got dozens of pages in notebooks. It's hard to write about this. And in some sense disloyal and self-centred. A problem of our times, perhaps, as we're pushed and pushed to improve and achieve. I'd been wondering what I'd do for a year or...
Read full commentPosted in Second thoughts
Conjured lots of images,
Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2019
Conjured lots of images, onemorething.
Lovely visual writing - light and easy to trip through (skills).
Called to mind a graveyard I stopped by once outside Uttoxeter. Climbing, bushing entanglement of ivy. I remember the parakeets...
Read full commentPosted in Graveyards
"Streetlights seep flattening
Posted on Thu, 14 Nov 2019
"Streetlights seep flattening white, blind
us to ink-light of dream-harbouring sky
where as if at God's baton tip, starlings
meet, surge, melt, crescendo wild shapes of joy"
Beautiful.
And the turn in those...
Read full commentPosted in layers
Wow. Crazy roller-coaster
Posted on Sun, 27 Oct 2019
Wow. Crazy roller-coaster fire in fireworks factory story. Brilliant. Yes, I get the Reilly comparison, but I enjoyed this more. I'm glad you kept going with it. I'll read on over the coming days. Far more interesting than some things I've been...
Read full commentPosted in Seven Nights in the Flamingo Hotel
Bloody great!!!!
Posted on Tue, 08 Oct 2019
Bloody great!!!!
So many ingredients in this warming concoction. You are chef-in-chief indeed, Ed.
I was joking with someone yesterday about the Spanish term for a "wordsearch". That term describes your creation here (o quizá sopa...
Read full commentPosted in This October Brings Endings
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