Richard Pierce – author, poet, painter
Dear Ren, 4th December 2016, 12:15 Once again, my desk is littered with all sorts of detritus; things done and things undone – and an almost overflowing ashtray, bad man… Continue Reading
Dear Ren, 23rd November 2016, 20:29 Just a quick start to this. Thanks for your letter which arrived as I’m struggling with the middle section of Ice Child – the… Continue Reading
Dear Ren, Interesting, these letters. I love the way they go off on tangents which then prove not to be tangents at all. And I think I like writing these… Continue Reading
My dear Ren, I’m so glad I followed my instinct and wrote and sent you my last letter in its physical form. Glad it arrived with you on a dark… Continue Reading
Dear Ren, I don’t even know where to start. When I worked as a teacher in Germany in in 1980/81, Anna (Oscar’s godmother) and I wrote each other letters that… Continue Reading
Dear Ren, As always, I’m listening to some new music when writing, because, contrary to many other writers I know, I need sound to put my words together. It’s so… Continue Reading
It’s almost a month since our 25th wedding anniversary. Real life reclaimed us all too quickly after a wonderful two days in Torrevieja where we retook our vows, witnessed by… Continue Reading
Only last night I was talking for an hour with a friend of mine who’d just finished reading Dead Men, telling him how, in my short time on the Antarctic,… Continue Reading
As you may imagine, having been traditionally published and then dropped by your publisher because you’re not “commercially viable” can be a bitter pill to swallow. However, there are some… Continue Reading
This article was posted on an e-zine site a few months ago, and I thought the time was right to repost it here. May 1989 I work for a company… Continue Reading