When I signed up to Project52 last year I felt that having had a recent resurgance in my blogging I would have no problems writing a post a week or more, but I’m sitting here in week one and can think of nothing to write. I don’t want to write quick link posts or embed [...]
Posts Tagged ‘writing’
Project52
I’ve decided to sign-up for Project52 next year; which according to the Project52 website is:
A personal challenge geared toward getting fresh content on your website. The goal is to write at least 1 new article per week for 1 year. Because we all know what it‘s like to procrastinate on our content. A website is [...]
High Flight on Radio 4
Radio 4 yesterday ran an interesting programme about High Flight a favourite poem of mine. The programme explores the history of the poet and pilot John Magee and of the poem itself.
The programme is available on iPlayer for another 6 days and is worth a listen; although I could have quite happily gone without ever hearing [...]
Guardian Gagged From Reporting Parliament
Yes really…
From the Guardian:
The Guardian has been prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights.
Today’s published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the [...]
High Flight
I suppose I’m a relative latecomer to poetry having only started to appreciate it in the last couple of years. I don’t recall ever reading poetry at school, and, perhaps unconventionally, it was the use of poetry in films that piqued my interest.
This was followed by finding a book of The Nation’s Favourite Poems at [...]
Biting the Big Apple
As I no longer have a links page or blogroll I’d like to draw your attention, if I may, to Biting The Big Apple; a great blog written by my friend Stephanie.
Stephanie and I worked together for a few years in London, then in 2007 Stephanie made the huge step of moving to New York [...]