Monthly Archives: February 2010
seven rules for reading poetry
Following on from the other day’s rules for writing poetry, and last week’s Guardian feature on tips for writing fiction, here are – at the suggestion of Chris Hamilton-Emery – my ‘rules’ for reading poetry. I found on closer inspection … Continue reading
Filed under Living With Words, poetry
acting sober
Here at Baroque Mansions we can’t really remember a time when we didn’t, to the question “What is your favourite movie?” answer: “Why, it’s The Philadelphia Story, of course.” This movie has everything. And one of the main things it … Continue reading
Filed under the movies
ten rules for writing poetry
When I first got started writing – that is, all my life – I would obsessively read anything a writer had written about writing itself, hoping some transportable truth would reveal itself, something I could take with me. I hoarded … Continue reading
Filed under writing
Baroque: I coulda been a contender
3 Quarks Daily, a really excellent blog that I read and have often quoted from in the past, is running an award! And it is for the best Arts & Literature blog post of the past year! (Editing in: best … Continue reading
Filed under Shameless Puffs
cycling: the healthy mode of transport
Revenge is a dish best served cold.* Yeah, right. So last night, coming home from teaching a really good workshop on rhyme, I was walking along the road by Seven Sisters station when a guy came up behind me at … Continue reading
