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19 March 2014 Regular Marvels in Theory

Testing the rules

Human beings exist in language. Words and people change each other constantly. The meaning of words shifts as they slip

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8 February 2014 Regular Marvels in Theory

RMT2 – Citation

Why do writers quote other writers? The reasons are complex, and do not preclude such weaknesses as showing off—no one

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14 November 2013 From My Life

Making sense of music

Do you remember the first time you heard the true sound of your voice? Not the familiar sound inside your

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26 July 2013 Bread and Salt

Bill Ming, Against the tide

  To mark Bill Ming’s solo exhibition at New Art Exchange in Nottingham, we’ve worked together on a book about

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15 May 2013 Bread and Salt

African inspiration

‘I had to get out of the country without permission, which means I have to cross my fingers when I

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10 May 2013 Bread and Salt

Bread and Salt: First words

My old friend Dave and I are doing the final proofs of the English version of Bread and Salt: it

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22 April 2013 Bread and Salt

Languages and realities

‘I’m used to thinking that stories in English are so much richer or more important than stories I hear in

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21 April 2013 Bread and Salt

Interpretations

‘You cannot understand the migrant if you haven’t heard his story first.’ Gazmend Kapllani In the course of working on

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5 April 2013 Bread and Salt

Fingers crossed

Yesterday I sent the draft text of Bread and Salt to the artists whose experiences of coming to Europe form

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6 February 2013 Bread and Salt

45 years of hope

Be Like Water – Hetain Patel The ruler has already been a language teacher’s cane and a samurai sword dancing

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