Don’t Get In Its Way is a page of fiction I wrote in response to Ben Platts-Mills sad story All I Wanted To Do Was in Attack!!! 6. Attack!!! 7 has just arrived, and it’s another a great little issue created by Wes White. My writing is alongside Damaged Goods by Erica Viola, and I’m [...]
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…Are of imagination all compact. In 2000 my time working in huge IT corporations was over although I didn’t know it. I wanted to do an MA in Creative Writing, and go it alone in the world of poetry. I’d been writing a lot of poetry since 1990, and by the mid nineties I had [...]
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Issue 7 on the theme of Time really is a brilliant issue, and not just because I have Nobody Knows a Damned Thing in it (illustrated by Jill Tytherleigh), but because the production standard is high throughout. I’m having a think about the theme for issue 9, pulp fiction.
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I just found out that the poet Nikki Giovanni taught Cho in 2005, and was so alarmed by his behaviour that she asked guards at the US campus to watch over her when he was in class. According to The Sun, “She said his writing contained images of murder and rape. His work was so [...]
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I just read the plays supposedly written by the VT killer, Cho Seung-Hui. They’re not great works obviously, but I was surprised by them. It seems Cho was getting a kick out of writing, which is really sad because writing is fun. I’ve taught creative writing. I have an MA in Creative Writing. I’ve been [...]
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When I walk to the gym, as I did this morning, I walk along a short stretch of the A350, one of the busiest roads in Britain that cuts through Westbury. There’s a pavement, or sidewalk, and when I’m going uphill, it’s not possible to see the traffic coming up the hill behind although I [...]
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