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Irish Poem of the Month | Top of the Tent

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Irish Poem of the Month. Writing Quote for Every Day. Top of the Tent. Writer, teacher, mother, chicken-keeper. Irish Poem of the Month. This used to be Poem of the Week Page, but I couldn’t keep up with it, so now it’s Poem of the Month! The Scholar’s Life. Nonce Words by Seamus Heaney. Another Heaney poem – his last, written in August 2013, just 10 days before his death. Banks of a Canal. Here’s the poem I’ve chosen to mark the first anniversary of his passing:. The Blackbird of Glanmore. Ah, blackbird...

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The Socially Awkward Writer

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RSS & Email. FAQs & Contact. The Socially Awkward Writer. August 12, 2015. Boy: Tales of Childhood). Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. For those two hours he has been miles away, he has been somewhere else, in a different place with totally different people, and the effort of swimming back into normal surroundings is very great. It is almost a shock The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze . . . My exhaustion, then, is legit, but what do I do about it?

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Books | Top of the Tent

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Irish Poem of the Month. Writing Quote for Every Day. Top of the Tent. Writer, teacher, mother, chicken-keeper. A Book A Week in My Read Diverse Year. July 8, 2016. Following my pledge to ‘Read Diverse’ in a more conscious way, I’ve assessed the 26 books I’ve read in the first …. Continue reading →. Baileys Prize Shortlist Mini Reviews. June 7, 2016. This year I’ve managed to read five out of the six shortlisted books for the Baileys Prize, the winner of …. Continue reading →. February 29, 2016. 8216;Sug...

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The Mystery and Ambivalence of Attachment: Seamus Heaney’s Clearances | Top of the Tent

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Irish Poem of the Month. Writing Quote for Every Day. Top of the Tent. Writer, teacher, mother, chicken-keeper. The Mystery and Ambivalence of Attachment: Seamus Heaney’s Clearances. Asymp; 8 Comments. Seamus Heaney Poem About His Mother. The Mystery of Motherhood. When All The Others Were Away At Mass. Following on from my rant in February, I decided to partly redress the balance and in homage to ‘Clearances’ produced an essay, or more accurately, a critique on the poem as a complete entity&...And again...

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In Loving Memory… « M.M. Bennetts

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Literary historical fiction with an emphasis on history. May 1812 – About the places. May 1812 – Read the opening. May 1812 – About the characters. Of Honest Fame – About the characters. Of Honest Fame – About the places. Of Honest Fame – Read the opening. Reviews of Of Honest Fame. Reviews of May 1812. Author’s historical note. In Loving Memory…. By M M Bennetts. August 2014, MM Bennetts passed away at her home in Hampshire, England. We can tell you all that it was painless and she was very peaceful.

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Writing Rules

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RSS & Email. FAQs & Contact. August 8, 2015. By Julia Munroe Martin. Ever since I read W. Somerset Maugham’s quote about his three rules for writing a novel, I’ve been thinking about it. Here’s what Maugham said:. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. It made me wonder if I have any rules for writing or truths I write by and if I do, are they worthy of sharing? I posted the Maugham quote and asked if anyone had rules for writing fiction. Here’s what I got.

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Filling the Flask: Author Susan Spann Talks on Challenging Yourself in Your Writing and Dreams | Oh, for the HOOK of a BOOK!

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Oh, for the HOOK of a BOOK! Blood and Rain/Glenn Rolfe Publicity Tour. Blood Sacrifices/Brian Moreland Publicity Page. Boom Town Publicity Page. Children of the Dark/Jonathan Janz Publicity Page. The Dark Servant Publicity Page. Desolation/Kristopher Rufty Publicity Page. Die Dog or Eat The Hatchet/Adam Howe Publicity Page. The Dover Demon/Hunter Shea Publicity Page. The Dreamwalker Publicity Page. Halloween Blitz for Xavier Axelson. The Hell Hole Mini-Tour. I Kill In Peace/Hunter Shea Publicity Page.

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The Love That Dare Not Appear in Print

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RSS & Email. FAQs & Contact. The Love That Dare Not Appear in Print. August 11, 2015. 8220;Surreal Couple” — by Tanakawho. I want to write today about a topic so unthinkably scandalous, so perniciously wrong, so beyond the pale of human understanding that, for whatever reason, writers avoid it at all costs in their stories, novels, and scripts. I speak, of course, about Platonic friendship between heterosexual men and women. The frisson of romance, if not rampant sexual tension, routinely bristles betwee...

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Prize-Winning Short Stories | Top of the Tent

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Irish Poem of the Month. Writing Quote for Every Day. Top of the Tent. Writer, teacher, mother, chicken-keeper. I came 2nd in the Allingham Arts Festival flash fiction competition with my piece ‘Viennese Whirls and Pineapple Creams’. And this is what judge, Manchán Magan. Had to say about it:. My finest fiction writing achievement to date is winning the 2015 Bath Short Story Award. You can read my story, ‘That Summer’, in the recently published Bath Short Story Award Anthology 2015. Safia Moore has writt...