How To Describe What You Really See

May 25, 2018

I wrote this blog post for Jericho Writers of Oxford in May 2018, in my role as a creative-writing tutor. * Check Your Assumptions at the Door Six or seven years ago, while living on the Devon coast, I signed up for a weekly life-drawing class. Life drawing? A...

The Ballad of John and David

May 19, 2018

I wrote this at the start of 2013. Celebrity Q & A’s often carry the question ‘Which living person do you most admire?’ Back then, for me, it was probably David Bowie; before him it had been John Lennon. * Earlier this year after a decade of silence David Bowie...