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Creative gulfs: UK, France and the US
To say Charlie Hebdo’s provocative satire is not always understood outside France, is an understatement. See this take on the magazine by Arthur Chu. And its satire was not to many people’s taste in France too, judging by its usual circulation — but of course everything’s different now. This cultural incomprehension reminded me of a…
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Atrial fibrillation and stroke
It is quite galling that as I mostly work commercially writing about health, that much of the stuff I do is of a confidential nature, or that you’ll only get to read it if you have a specific medical condition. However a large website I wrote earlier this year will be launched this year too.…
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protesting too much
Not often you get to talk to a leading contemporary poet for a couple of hours, about your own work. I went to a one-to-one poetry Surgery with Brendan Cleary who was looking at my manuscript, and offering a critique. It was a very valuable experience. And it has been a long while since another…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 