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Nine Ways To Get To Ten
Just so you don’t think we’re greedy, we sent this out to news people but they weren’t interested. Maybe it’s because we’re only 10, or maybe it’s because we’re not connected enough. The important thing is we’re still here. I also wanted to add that one of the small publishers we admire is BOA Editions [...]
My Running Credentials
Now, I don’t want anyone to get excited. I am not in line for mayor, major, senator, sanitary agent, vice president or head of taste; I am just planning on running. After fourteen years of not really doing any distance running, I am returning to the roads, hills, paths, streams and hillocks to raise money [...]
Funding and its discontents
In the interest of economics, this will be a short blog. It’s now been a few weeks since the Arts Council decisions on its cuts came through and – understandably – there is a lot of reaction still churning in the ether. I have been very close to much of the talk because, primarily, of [...]
A way to read a poem
Adapted from an essay on teaching poetry on Nii’s website: What we run on when we run about poeting The original essay was delivered as a lecture for Writers Centre Norwich “Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one [...]
The New Foyles
In spite of myself, I have to come out and praise Foyles; it’s a store much changed for the better – what it has lost in character it has gained in integrity. When I began to work in publishing in the UK we used to regard books and magazines delivered to Foyles in much the [...]
