I don't think I'm going to send out a great deal of submissions this year... I have some excellent reasons for putting that side of things on pause.
What would I say to Mark Gatiss if I met him in the street?
A social contract for meeting celebrities, and a review of relating to somebody's work.
Dragging Myself Over A Hurdle.
Alphabet Superset week 4 is about struggling with this week's challenge (the letter D).
From Beverley to Bloomsbury
A short poem questioning what town I come from, written for Alphabet Superset.
The Abbey.
A poem inspired by Lord Byron's ancestral home, Newstead Abbey.
Sally Rooney as Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler, whose books show the mundane and interior lives of radicals, sits alongside our foremost millennial novelist, reading her works is reading a version of the anxieties and experiences my compatriots and I have lived.
Rejection, Endless Rejection
Rejections are a fact of life. Rejection comes in friendship, work, creativity… and my god does it come hard and fast when you're trying.
Podcasts: The Ultimate Edutainment
What podcasts do I recommend, and what makes a good podcast to me?
The Joy in Something You Weren’t Seeking
Do you ever find yourself researching something so strange that you stop and wonder what brought you here? I find that it’s almost a daily occurrence for me: whether it’s finding a stack of books on the history of various astrologies (what’s more surprising, that I needed it or that it’s a surprisingly well-covered field?)... Continue Reading →
The League of Gentlemen: Papa Lazarou and punching up
I want to investigate - coming from a place of love - how it came to be that League of Gentlemen had some, uh, Not OK jokes, how this might be changed, and what we can learn from the ideas articulated by and radiating from some of the more offensive jokes of the series - and from how beloved they always were.
Late Romantic 