Time is pressing
Dear Ren, Time is pressing, which is why, for the first time since we’ve been writing these letters, I’m scrawling mine directly onto my blog (can you scrawl with a… Continue Reading
Browsing Category: Writing
Heinrich von Kleist and all that
Dear Ren, I wonder if it is the truly personal navel-gazing nature of our correspondence which makes people not comment on it on your blog – or perhaps it is… Continue Reading
The Perils of Parenthood; Serendipity, Irony & Christmas
Dear Ren, 20th December 2016, 09:30 As soon as I had sent you my last letter I realised that I’d made a mistake on the track listing for Not Nul… Continue Reading
Legibility was never high on the agenda
Dear Ren, 11th December 2016, 19:42 I start this knowing that I won’t finish it today, but I felt the need to start it anyway. Last night I got an… Continue Reading
Those perfect moments you wish would last forever; and infinity
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
Religion, politics, and a space to breathe
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
Tangents, and not tangents
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
Otherness, writing & real letters
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
Women, men, writers, bodies, and metamorphosis
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
Cats and dogs and middle-age and music and parenthood
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