http://www.creative-writing.ch/fam/ en-us 2008-05-27T16:07:45+01:00 http://www.creative-writing.ch/fam/filed/000087.html It's been some time, the phrase that one dreads as a middle-aged human being, because if there was one thing about turning fifty (as I did last year in the context of a great gathering of friends, not for a... FAM 2008-05-27T16:07:45+01:00 http://www.creative-writing.ch/fam/filed/000079.html A very different and perhaps in many ways less immediately accessible read is Robyn Bolam’s excellent and very thorough anthology of women poets from 1600 to 1900 Eliza’s Babes. Robyn is a respected poet, regarding whose work my only criticism... FAM 2006-09-05T09:53:46+01:00 http://www.creative-writing.ch/fam/filed/000075.html There are no plans to use this site for book reviews, but recently, two books have come across my desk, both of which, for different reasons I find noteworthy and would like to introduce here. So as not to create... FAM 2006-03-01T19:53:38+01:00 http://www.creative-writing.ch/fam/filed/000074.html There was a mention of two weeks in the previous entry and “Sleeping Beauty” only accounts for one. So here, somewhat more briefly, is the account of the second week, spent at St. Mary’s College in Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham,... FAM 2006-02-20T16:03:45+01:00 http://www.creative-writing.ch/fam/filed/000073.html They’ve been most exhilarating, the past two weeks. For the moment, however, I want to focus on "Sleeping Beauty", which came to an end on Sunday 5 February. It had been a headache almost to the last minute. The tech... FAM 2006-02-13T18:23:55+01:00 http://www.creative-writing.ch/fam/filed/000071.html There is nothing quite like the last days in the run-up to a major project to ruin a good night's sleep, not to mention put a serious strain on domestic relationships. Of course one could rest in the cosy knowledge... FAM 2006-01-30T13:02:57+01:00 http://www.creative-writing.ch/fam/filed/000069.html A bit more than a year ago, before Christmas, I wrote to my dear friend Milena Diviani, whose writings you may be familiar with if you’ve visited her page in the Showcase section. I'd been down to Ticino, the Italian-speaking... FAM 2006-01-24T13:42:21+01:00