How long did it take you to realise you’ve been avoiding the thing you're most scared of? Maybe you’re seized with crippling anxiety whenever you try to leave the house, in which case, I don’t imagine it took you long. Maybe you’ve been low-level unhappy in your job, and lockdown, doing what it did for … Continue reading Nora Ephron changed my life (or at least my writing)
I've yet to meet someone who doesn't turn to a book when holidaying. Even those most reluctant readers have one in tow when boarding a plane to their destination. Among mornings at the market, dripping afternoon ice creams and barmy Mediterranean evenings, days spent invested in books stand out in my memory of childhood holidays. … Continue reading The Ultimate Guide to Your Next Holiday Read
This post has been with me for a while but was inspired by Dolly Alderton's recent 'The Life of Dolly' column on city living (The Sunday Times Style, 13th January 2019). You can read it here. As with most decisions made in my early twenties, my choice to stay in Glasgow after graduating has been … Continue reading A Life Well Established
It’s a tricky decision choosing to share poetry. Do you send it out in to the world without context and hope it hits people in the right way? Do you publish with clauses and explanations so as not to offend anyone it may be influenced by? Some (most) of my poems are too raw, too … Continue reading The Elusive Search for Anything
This has been a big year for me in the literary sense. I graduated from a degree in English Literature and was simultaneously filled with a sadness at not having a mountain of assigned texts to read and an excitement at being able to delve in to my shelves and read the books I'd been … Continue reading Five Fiction Books from 2018
When I began writing this post, I didn’t know quite what it was I wanted to say about Yanagihara’s A Little Life. What I did know was that I wanted, if not needed, to say something. Anything. Anything that would encourage others to read it or open a discussion with those who had. Anything that … Continue reading Musings on Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘A Little Life’
