The post I wrote about Michael Gove’s policy idea around ensuring children of 11 read 50 books a year had an overwhelming response. Thank you for the comments and the pingbacks and being generous with your time. I had more … Continue reading
Tag Archives: literature
#GB11 Literature Talks
Here are all the literature talks bundled together in one place. Go buy them all.
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Tagged books, Faith, greenbelt, greenbelt festival, literature, mp3, Poetry, words
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Greenbelt Writers Network- Bringing the creative community together through the year.
Greenbelt isn’t just a great festival, it’s also a wonderful melting pot of fantastically creative people. One of the sessions on the Literature Programme is a session marked “Greenbelt Writers Network”. Here’s some thoughts I’ve written about what I think. … Continue reading
Literature Workshops at Greenbelt. #GB11
The literature programme at Greenbelt is offering a number of practical workshops for writers through the weekend.
Posted in event, greenbelt, short story, storytelling, words, writing
Tagged andrew phillip, Arts, cheltenham, El Gruer, gb11, greenbelt festival, jane upchurch, Kathy Watson, literature, mia gallagher, nicky getgood, Performance poetry, Poetry, simon morden, the hub, workshop
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Greenbelt 2011: My Literature Picks.
If you’re coming to the festival may I be so bold as to offer a couple of literature picks for your consideration through the weekend, obviously everything on the literature programme will be interesting and inspirational but these are a … Continue reading
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Tagged books, festival, greenbelt festival, katherine venn, literature, Odysseus, Padraig O Tuama, Poetry, reading, richard beard, Stella Duffy
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“The gift of words…”
I write lots of reviews of books/DVDs on Amazon. Some of them are a bit hit and miss. Stuff I’m indifferent to gets treated with just a few words. The stuff I really love or really hate tend to get … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, books, Film, Online stuff, review
Tagged A Field Guide to Getting Lost, amazon, Arts, Ben Whitehouse, books, literature, Rebecca Solnit, Review
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World Book Night.
(I keep reading World Book Night as World Boo Knight) On Saturday 5 March, a million books will be given away across the UK in the first ever World Book Night. I’m one of the lucky people chosen to give … Continue reading
Posted in Ben Whitehouse, books, Horsehay and Lightmoor, it gets better, lgbt, Shropshire, telford
Tagged books, literature, Nigel Slater
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The 100 favourite fictional characters… as chosen by 100 literary luminaries
This is an old post from the Independent that I stumbled across this morning. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-100-favourite-fictional-characters-as-chosen-by-100-literary-luminaries-526971.html A couple of lovely examples stand out. God Chosen by Michael Marshall (The Lonely Dead)Polymorphic, unpredictable, unaccountable; omnipotent yet negligent, kind yet vicious. Suitable to … Continue reading
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Tagged Agatha Christie, books, entertainment, god, greenbelt, literature, The 100
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Looking Back at Looking Sideways or “How I Got There”.
Being asked to write a “While we were here” post always throws my own personal thread of approaching Greenbelt blog posts usually an A –> B process. A being the blog post that bigs up what I’ve booked and then B … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, books, creative arts, festival, GB10, greenbelt, literature
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There may be 7 stories…
But according to Jeanette Winterson there’s only three endings to our stories. 1) Revenge 2) Tragedy 3) Forgiveness And the faux Hollywood happy ending (but that doesn’t count). She’d be so good to come to Greenbelt. Wonder if we can … Continue reading
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Tagged book club, book group, ending, greenbelt, jeanette winterson, literature, oranges, oranges are not the only fruit, radio 4
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Yearning for home.
I’m looking for book/play suggestions where one of the main themes is yearning for home. Yearning can mean what you take it to mean. Home can mean what you take it to mean. Obvious suggestion is “The Wonderful Wizard of … Continue reading
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Tagged books, dreaming of home, home, literature, play, theatre, yearning for home
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