Iron Age Writers

Added on 18 February 2017

No, this is not about quills and oak gall ink (although there may need to be a future blog post about that) but type-on-tree-pulp writing about the Iron Age. In this post I want to share and recommend two of my favourite writers about the Iron Age, one non-fiction and one fiction. The first is Barry...

Seaweed

Added on 11 February 2017

We are having utterly glorious blue, frozen weather, and if the boat was in the water, we'd be out there in the light breezes, cold no doubt but dazzled. But Each Mara is on the hard standing, so all we can do is paddle at the shore and gaze out at the turquoise, rippling ocean... and gather sea...

Warm Glow from Winter Words

Added on 04 February 2017

This week I received a new-to-me poetry magazine, The Poets’ Republic, through the post and I’ve been hugely enjoying reading it with my cup of tea in bed these last few mornings. I received it because the guest editor, Helena Nelson of Happenstance, suggested I should submit poems to it...