This extraordinary short poem by #Cavafy : five lines of remarkable potency:

The Cottage in the Wildwood The advice that worked for me as a late-emerging writer (first book published at 48) is included in my memoir #TheCureForSleep & comes from my mentor, the renowned sculptor David Nash (who had his first solo show in his 40s). I hope it also helps visitors to your thread…

I wonder if you’d be interested in this talk on artist #EvelynDunbar dear The Unhurried Reader - offered online as well as in person - Ashmolean Museum. I’ll be attending via zoom…

ashmolean.org/event/three-wo…

“…in summer I often read in the open air. The narrative carries me away, a great way off; and yet… at times like these I do not know which means more to me, the countryside all round or the story I am being told.” — All Said and Done, #simonedebeauvoir

‘The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water…How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?’ — Light Years, #JamesSalter

Off to London to meet my fellow #WildService authors after we spent an emotional night around a fire basket in a wood. Immensely proud to be among them. There are authors you know, & authors you may not yet know, that will move you & blow your socks off. This is more than a book.

This is so special. One of the most frustrating things about my cancer is that I can't trust my voice. I can barely speak above a whisper, and my breathing goes into spasm. To have others reading for me is amazing, moving, wonderful. LaPetiteCreature Beth Brooke 🔥

I set up the ClassNature Prize for #WorkingClass Writers to burst the stereotype of what it means to be a nature writer, giving unrivaled access to Octopus Publishing editors, agents & ace opportunities wth Arvon & Campaign for National Parks Please RT! Info: thebookseller.com/news/the-natur…

“…in summer I often read in the open air. The narrative carries me away, a great way off; and yet… at times like these I do not know which means more to me, the countryside all round or the story I am being told.” — All Said and Done, #simonedebeauvoir

To mark our 4th birthday, this week's episode shares sections of six of our favourite episodes.

Episode 213 - Sound-scenes we love from four years of Lento (61 mins)
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“Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!”

In memoriam
#VirginiaWoolf #DOTD
28 March 1941

📷 Starlings over the River Ouse at Southease, near her last home Monks House NT

My Tom cat in his old age thinks every evening of his twilight years should be spent with me holding his paws on the sofa. If I try to read at the table he sits on the pages…

'I once had a winter that was wordless. A time of complicated grief: the kind that can’t be shared.' Powerful words and a hopeful project from the fantastic Tanya Shadrick on The Clearing today littletoller.co.uk/the-clearing/b…

Shared my #ConcentratesOfPlace practice with members of this week’s Arvon Bodies of Water residential - moving to see how they’ve framed & compressed their time Arvon North (a tactile exercise in editing before we returned to our pen and paper work)

My week’s teaching Arvon Arvon North in its last hours. Just been found by one of the group in my happy place - lighting a fire in the library (as former owner Ted Hughes might have) before I settle down with book & hot water bottle for a few hours of reading…

“We believe creative writing can change lives for the better…It unlocks our potential, our empathy and our hope” Arvon

As a tutor Arvon North this week, I’ve seen the Arvon magic at work - writers expanding daily in confidence. Tasted it too! Never been fed so well

My week teaching Arvon Lumb Bank off to soulful start. Called at Hebden Library on off-chance my incredibly talented 2022 Ilkley Literature Festival mentee Kerry Whitley was on duty. Huge happy hugs & chance to hear about other projects that have recognised her writing talent…

Just a few places left!

27 Nov-2 Dec: I’m co-tutor with Miranda Ward & guest author Malachy Tallack in Yorkshire at Arvon’s iconic Ted Hughes Arvon Centre

Join us for 5 days of diving deep into writing non-fiction through the theme of water

arvon.org/writing-course…

From Tanya Shadrick such a wonderful poem - truly every writer’s checklist! I just love this and plan to read it every morning 👇🏽✍️

'[Tanya Shadrick] is a facilitator of dreams and an enabler of action. Her raison d’être has become the encouragement of others, the catch and release of other people’s stories …'