Almost Composed

Meditation and curiosity

Fog

March 13, 2014

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Poets’ Corner

February 23, 2014

I dream of London’s buried waterways, how the Tyburn crashes through Westminster trammelled by culverts, a ghost of a ghost. Bury me somewhere nameless. Let the days settle underneath leaves. Open the ground, bury me deeper this time. Let me fall down where the rivers meet so I can feel the current without knowing. There’s […]

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Secret fire

February 15, 2014

The safety notice bleaches in sunlight. Hours smoke in a secret fire.        

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Getting published – talk by Alysoun Owen, editor of The Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook

February 8, 2014

Alysoun’s talk focused on the changing landscape of publishing, self-publishing strategies and what publishers have to offer. I was particularly interested in ‘how to hook an agent’. What she had to say was pragmatic and at times sobering. Suffice to say a lot of people write but not many make much money at it. Fine […]

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Yorick2300’s remix of The Axe

February 4, 2014

My friend Paul has remixed this lovely minimalist take on ‘The Axe’.

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