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August 2024

August Reads (part one)
I read a lot this month because I was on holiday, had a couple of long haul flights, and caught corona which meant Minori locked my in the spare bedroom…
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Uregawa
unpublished poem
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The Museum of Innocence
At the end of July, we went to Türkiye—Istanbul and Cappadocia to be specific—for a bit of a well-deserved break.
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A break in transmission...
I have corona, so I haven’t been able to prepare anything for this week’s post.
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July Reads
Viet Thanh Nguyen was already one of my favourite writers.
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July 2024

A MAP FOR TOUGH TIMES: On Iain Maloney’s ‘Mountain Retreats’
From the Glasgow Review of Books, 21 July 2024
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Behind the Words: University Challenge
As the subtitle very strongly suggests, this was meant to be the opening chapter of a longer work that never happened.
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University Challenge
Chapter one of an abandoned novel
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vi: an old salt
From "Mountain Retreats", out now on Isobar Press
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June Reads
I’ve had To the Dogs on my shelf since it came out at the start of the year but other things kept getting in the way.
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June 2024

Behind the Words: Two Nights in Dundee
Back in my undergrad days, I did a creative writing class with Alan Spence.
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