Oct 31, 2009 | Features
Just finished a wonderful book by the book editor Diana Athill, ‘Stet’. Athill explains the title: “By a long-established printer’s convention, a copy-editor wanting to rescue a deletion puts a row of dots under it and writes ‘Stet’ (let it stand) in the margin.” The...
Oct 26, 2009 | Latest
18th September – 23rd September. In East Friesia, Germany, on a visit to schools and colleges to address English Language and Literature students. Spoke at Aurich, Vocational School; Ubbo-Emmius-Gymnasium, Leer; Gymnasium, Rhauderfehn; Teletta-Groß-Gymnasium, Leer;...
Oct 8, 2009 | Latest
5th October. Attended a disturbing play in the Old Museum, ‘Transparency’. It was written by Suzie Miller and directed by Rachel O’Riordan. The play has resonances with the case of the two 10-year-olds who murdered two-year-old Jamie Bolger in Liverpool in the early...
Sep 29, 2009 | Features
My address to the Planet K conference in Venice: Some years ago IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands wrote a great poem called ‘The Rhythm of Time’. In it he paid tribute to the uprising of the Roman slaves under Spartacus, to the Aztecs and Incas who were butchered by the...
Sep 29, 2009 | Latest
29th September. At unveiling in City Hall of official portrait of Tom Hartley as Mayor of Belfast, 2008-2009. 24th – 27th September. At the Venice Biennial for a conference, Planet K, dealing with the Kurdish situation from a political/cultural perspective on...
