The Zombie in the Room

The late poet Michael Donaghy once said something along the lines: Whenever I start writing poems about poetry – I take a cold shower… And I’m inclined to agree with him. Writing about writing can be self-indulgent, and not advance the thought, or the art, very much. So, I am going to pretend that I […]

Not the Comfy Chair

Here is a ramble about ‘reality’, from a woman who, in writing fiction, tries to create a sense of it in her mind – and transmit it by symbols to the minds of other humans.  No atoms and molecules harmed in the process. Of course, writers are not special – any conscious mind surely has a sense […]