Monthly Archives: May 2012

At the end of January in 1988 I turned 17 and one of the first things I did, to mark this occasion was to apply for my provisional driving licence. I was working in a factory in Newton Heath, earning the grand sum of fifty pounds a week. Out of th… Continue reading →

Last night I attended a poetry event with some of the Grist writers. There were six of us in total and we had been invited as guest readers, part of our continuing promotion of the anthology, A Complicated Way of Being Ignored. It was a great venu… Continue reading →

Grist is a new annual anthology of the best new writing from around the world published in English. Is this email not displaying correctly?View it in your browser. forward to a friend This month at the Puzzle Hall Inn: Grist PoetsMonday 7th May 20… Continue reading →

I finally got round to watching Never Let Me Go yesterday, the film adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Alex Garland and is, apparently (I’ve not read the novel), very faithful to the book. The di… Continue reading →