Writer, lecturer, author, eternal student and boyfriend.
Leicester
Joined September 2011
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Not that this really matters but folks might want to know that I’m not using this platform much anymore. My account will stay active just to check DMs every now and then. If you really want, you can follow me on Bsky and see me tweet so, so often. :)
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Delighted to be included in this issue. Thank you, @DustmagPoetry, for taking my work and for your supportive, warm communication.
NEW ISSUE: Issue 12 is out and you can read it here:
dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/cate…
Birmingham Symphony Orchestra giving a free concert in New Street Station today. Somehow missing a train is now preferable!
Today’s bookcase snippet:
‘I drew the water’s wings,
the windows within windows,
the water-leaves and sun-leaves’
From ‘The Dragonfly Daughter’ found in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 by Pascale Petit
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#TheGraniteKingdom paperback is on the way - out on 9th May, if you're interested in an armchair odyssey through #Cornwall with a side-order of debunked myths and a whole lot of pasties...
bloomsbury.com/uk/granite-ki…
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Today's #WritingTip is attributed to Mark Twain: "Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very’; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." #WritingTips #WritingCommunity #WritersLife #DMU
My lovely boyfriend gave me the whole Dune collection for Xmas. Here’s the opening of the saga…
‘In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy, an old crone came to visit the mother of the boy, Paul.’
Another snippet from my bookcase.
‘So quietly did I sit, my pencil/darting its neon abdomen,/holm oaks enclosed me in an aisle./I drew the water’s wings,/the windows within windows,/the water-leaves and sun-leaves.’
From ‘The Dragonfly Daughter’ - Pascale Petit
I’ve had little time to write lately but picked something up to read instead, here’s a snippet.
‘Stations built of overlapping chords, where we/laid our heads on the hard wooden benches/and dreamed our own cathedrals, man woman and child.’
From ‘A Lost Patrimony’ - Peter Riley
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This was a lovely surprise at the end of a long day - #TheGraniteKingdom in excellent company on the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award shortlist. Thank you!
The Edward Stanford Award 2024 Shortlist is finally here! Congratulations to all the incredible Authors that are Shortlisted for
The Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year Award 🏆👏
@curlewcalls @leonmccarron @parfitt_tom @Tim_Hannigan @GhaithAbdulahad Alice Albinia
I can now be found on the ‘other place’. Will I post more there than here? Debatable… But if we’re friends on here and you’re ‘there’ too, come find me! :) zeandrick.bsky.social
It worked! The PM listened and heard all those clarion calls for a new Ministry of Common Sense. Everyone can be much relieved... Our problems as a nation are solved. Done. Finished. Sorted.
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Exeter Living has published an interview with me about my residency at Exeter Cathedral (page 66)...it has turned into quite an extended visit! @riddlerinexeter
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I'm reading from "Scablands and Other Stories" at @KeeleUniversity on Monday 9 October at 730pm. Details here - all welcome! keelehallreadings.wordpress.… @keelehallreads @lisablowerwrite @saltpublishing @cwaleicester @EverybodyReview @BennettSoc @writingwestmids @UoLEnglish
