What is your tutor up to? Garry MacKenzie
I’m really interested in what nets mean to you. Do you come from a fishing background? Can you wax lyrical about the moment when a football hits the back of the net? Are you a knitter?
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Skip NavigationI’m really interested in what nets mean to you. Do you come from a fishing background? Can you wax lyrical about the moment when a football hits the back of the net? Are you a knitter?
Read MoreWith all that time to do nothing but write, you have to deliver, don’t you? Nope. This mindset is guaranteed to make you freeze.
Read MoreWrite a paragraph describing the leaf in as much detail as you can. The only rule is you’re not allowed to use the words ‘green’, ‘red’, ‘yellow’ or ‘brown’.
Read MoreThere’s a whole, diverse world of amazing fiction out there, and exploring it is a lot cheaper than other ways of travelling around the world.
Read MoreMaybe you’re not able to walk very far. Or you don’t have time. Or maybe it’s just not your style. That doesn’t mean that you have to miss out on all the ways in which walking and writing go hand-in-hand.
Read MoreAny form of writing can unfold like a journey on foot, surprising its author. How might your own writing head off down an unexpected path?
Read MoreI hope this discussion inspires you to think more deeply about how you could write about particular landscapes (or waterscapes) and stimulates you to research a really interesting contemporary writer and her ideas about poetry and places.
Read MoreIn the end, it’s not just about flowers.
Read MoreOne of the reasons I read literature in translation is to extend my sense of the possible – to get a sense of what English-language writing might be missing.
Read MoreI hope to produce a poem that is full of light and life, that is itself an ecosystem made up of many different sights, sounds, creatures, memories and ideas.
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