Andrew Greig described what must have been a terrifying moment when I heard him speak at the Aye Write book festival. When he was fifteen, he sent some of his poems to the venerable Scottish poet, Norman MacCaig. In response, he received a note that read (and in telling this part of the story he [...]
I’ve just been alerted by a kindly reader that visitors to this website were being redirected to a porn site. I know that my readers are a sensitive and innocent bunch, so I can only apologise for the no doubt indelible damage that has been done to your psyche, and hope that you bookmarked the [...]
It’s not an original statement to say that we’re living in the future. But it was brought home to me with particular force a moment ago. Not, I’m sorry to say, because I’ve just witnessed a miraculous example of modern medicine or life-saving technology. I’d like to pretend it was something like that, but it [...]