Michael Borrowdale
I’m currently re-reading The Sea, The Sea, the 1978 Booker winner, Iris Murdoch’s 19th novel. I read it over 40 years ago! Since my recently complet...
Month: June 2019
The Art of Memory
We were sitting in an Indian restaurant in Brighton. The party was split over two tables as there was not room for all 18 to sit at one. The parents, grandparen...
The Eulogy
At our last creative writing class we were asked to read a ‘performance’ piece in the allotted 5 minutes. Our tutor encourages us to take part in op...
Prose poetry
This was a group exercise to try and list the main characteristics of poetry as a form of writing. This is what we came up with. It is structured visually on th...
The Great Mystico
This was a writing class exercise where we were given 10 words that had to be used in the text – bit, draw, flex, perilous, bubble, corner, rancid, pound, high,...
A valley through time
For a year now he had been walking the tow path and exploring the Aire Valley between Apperley Bridge and Kirkstall, a 5 mile stretch of woodland, fields, river...
WEA Creative Writing Course
Last month I started a seven week creative wring course with the Workers Education Association (WEA). Every week the first half of our two hour class is reading...
Starting again
This blog was started in March 2014 when I intended to embark on a ‘creative’ writing project after many years of academic writing and all the stric...