2026 is the National Year of Reading. The stress of the legal profession is geological: reading creates space away from that. Take time to read, if you can. And if you'd enjoy an imaginative break, how about https://t.co/k2NWOnbvMH
Digging in the loft, I found White Dwarf issue 23 with a prescient editorial from Ian Livingstone (in 1981 he was yet to fulfil his destiny of becoming a knight). A mainline to memories - and saved from the tip. #gamesworkshop#FantasyAdventure#YAfiction
In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most influential 20th c. Spanish-language writers, told William F. Buckley (whose first language was Spanish) his reasons for feeling, age 78, that English was 'far finer' than his native tongue. Right or wrong, I love his savor for language
So many books so few days ! Every day should be #worldbookday2024. This is from 5,389 days ago. That's a lot of reading - and writing. This was the signing for Strange Energy - second in The Bad Tuesdays series.
Massive congratulations to our tutor @StavPoleg, who has just had her poem 'Memory and Geography' published in @NewYorker. 👏
Read the poem here: https://t.co/3FVfbv0CQ3
“Soon enough they would come to know this had long been
the Age of Grief;
that History was ahead of them. The crown of ice melting
on the roof of the world.”
A new poem by Carol Ann Duffy https://t.co/uxHWCCj3pM