tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79635932126740883962013-06-17T20:36:22.487+01:00Mind and LanguageCreative writing, philosophy, 120 filmZoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17592272445121248655noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125MindAndLanguagehttp://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963593212674088396.post-38187267045365656842013-06-17T07:52:00.000+01:002013-06-17T20:36:22.503+01:002013-06-17T20:36:22.503+01:00Tininess and unease: the miniature in short stories for adults<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Cante jondo: primitive and universal, like the sea
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Stories take on a life of their own - let them go!
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How do we frame a world to make it authentic?
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The view from the bottom of Snowdon can be intimidating
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Are the travellers afraid, wary, cunning, or just tired?
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mostly involves the luxury of reading contemporary short stories Zoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17592272445121248655noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963593212674088396.post-36579798478461287902013-01-03T21:18:00.000Z2013-01-05T10:41:46.848Z2013-01-05T10:41:46.848ZWhy short stories are like dreams<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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What Manx tales is Uncle John telling with those pipes?
Still brimming with short stories after a wonderful Arvon course that I wrote about a couple of posts ago, I went to see Alasdair Roberts and Richard Dawson play
at the Vortex in Dalston. They are
folk musicians with completely different styles but both influenced by
traditional folk songs; Alasdair Roberts sings in a recognisable, Zoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17592272445121248655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963593212674088396.post-89468403390258368372012-12-01T17:07:00.001Z2012-12-01T17:23:13.002Z2012-12-01T17:23:13.002ZMarina Warner - Stranger Magic, a talk
Flying is not just for birds
Marina Warner’s
talk at Foyles this week on The Arabian Nights – the subject of her new book, Stranger Magic – was itself rather like a magic carpet ride. We took in a rich
landscape of ideas, many of them surprising. Marina admitted her own surprise
at discovering, on reading the 1,001 tales, that she didn’t know half as many as
she had supposed. This made meZoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17592272445121248655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963593212674088396.post-16126348532795280172012-11-24T19:52:00.001Z2012-11-24T19:52:10.190Z2012-11-24T19:52:10.190ZArvon Creative Writing Course - The Short Story<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Hardy is master of woodland landscapes
A strong but silent woodsman, a flirtatious man of manners,
a fickle girl and impending tragedy hinted at in the pathetic fallacy of
whispering beech leaves... When I think of Thomas Hardy nowadays I see images
from my mother’s favourite film, Far From the Madding Crowd, with Julie
Christie as an evenly-tanned Bathsheba and Terence Stamp as the Zoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17592272445121248655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963593212674088396.post-17354003830255973782012-09-12T21:41:00.000+01:002012-09-12T21:41:20.769+01:002012-09-12T21:41:20.769+01:00The Americanisation of Fairy Tales – A Jack Zipes talk<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Wandering Rocks, but alas no Sirens
On Thursday, as my plane manoeuvred towards its gate at
Dublin airport, the first thing I saw was a hare, lolloping along the runway.
It was unperturbed, pausing here and there to take in the mechanical beasts
around it, and then heading straight down the tarmac as if about to launch
itself into the sky.
It was a suitable omen. In my 30 hours in Joyce’s Zoehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17592272445121248655noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7963593212674088396.post-3799576891157508752012-06-20T08:50:00.000+01:002012-06-20T08:50:02.250+01:002012-06-20T08:50:02.250+01:00Why do a Creative Writing PhD?
A tutor can guide you across the creative writing rocks...
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