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What is your tutor up to? Garry MacKenzie thumb

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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What I learned on a writing retreat

With all that time to do nothing but write, you have to deliver, don’t you? Nope. This mindset is guaranteed to make you freeze.

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A new leaf: writing and observation thumb

A new leaf: writing and observation

Write 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’.

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What I’ve learned from travelling around the world (in short stories) thumb

What I’ve learned from travelling around the world (in short stories)

There’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.

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Walking and writing part 2

Maybe 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.

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Walking and writing part 1

Any form of writing can unfold like a journey on foot, surprising its author. How might your own writing head off down an unexpected path?

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Poetry and landscapes: rivers thumb

Poetry and landscapes: rivers

I 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.

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Why you should try poetry translation thumb

Why you should try poetry translation

One 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.

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Conversations with mountains

I 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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