Literature’s 13 most unusual books

In general, well-known works of fiction compel us to celebrate the creativity of the writer. The…

Unsound Methods 11: Olga Tokarczuk & Jennifer Croft

The latest episode of Unsound Methods is now up and this week we speak to Olga Tokarczuk and Jennifer Croft, joint winners of the Man Booker International prize 2018.

Bibliotherapy is everywhere I look

For a serendipitous moment on a Sunday evening I seemed to encounter authors writing about their personal journeys of grief, bereavement and healing, their subconscious pulls to heal manifesting through their writing. The highly raw accounts of emotions give birth to…

Writing on Paper Boats

Writing on paper boats.

As small and graceful

Unsound Methods 10: Joanna Kavenna

Another episode of Unsound Methods and this week we spoke to novelist and essayist, Joanna Kavenna.

We talked about false starts, finding a narrative voice in fiction as well as researching a novel in the Arctic circle and dealing with Polar…

A Bright Day

Under my backyard fence,

I heard people’s voices

City and Ocean

Side of city touching

the ocean touching