by Administrator | Jun 2, 2020 | Readers & Writers
Kate O’Donnell is a bookseller in Melbourne -the Australian UNESCO City of Literature. She was supposed to be visiting Nottingham to take up a residency this year, but when Coronavirus scuppered that plan she instead wrote us this insightful, heartfelt and at...
by Administrator | May 30, 2020 | Readers & Writers
Our chair, David Belbin, writes: This is the tenth week of lockdown and, as the NHS weekly clap comes to an end, so does this series. I’d like to thank all of the writers who contributed so speedily when asked and have given us such interesting insights into their...
by Administrator | May 17, 2020 | Quick Reads
‘Launch’ is a word of immediacy, of physicality. Poems call to be recited out loud, not merely read. How then does a book launch – of a new anthology – work in lockdown? Carcanet Press put on a celebration to mark the launch of Rory Waterman’s third poetry...
by Administrator | May 16, 2020 | Quick Reads
Hope is something that we can all do with in the current situation, and children are no different. Children, as much as adults, are worried about the confusing and frightening news that we hear, they have lost their routines, and they may be worried about parents who...
by Administrator | Apr 27, 2020 | Readers & Writers
Me: I’m quarantined, trapped and ephemeral by this creepy pandemic! Yet, you are always on the high shelves, in the air, and eternal! Literature: I feel like I am vulnerable too, more remotely by hyper-individualist controllers. Me: You used to be my...