writing – Regular Marvels

Trusting the process, again

In January 2021, for the first time in my life, I wrote a long, detailed outline for a community art

As I worked on it, I realised that it is another Regular Marvel, the simplest, easiest but in some ways the most beautiful yet

In a world saturated with pictures, the work of artists is very vulnerable and very important –vulnerable because it

The fourth Regular Marvel is called The Light Ships: Church, art and community in the Lincolnshire Fens. It will be

In 1841, a young father and musician was kidnapped in Washington DC, shipped in chains to New Orleans and sold

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

‘Music is in the first place of art. It brings us on an island with peace, beauty and love. Music

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

Philosophy Bites is a podcast that has been produced since 2007 by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton. In the spirit

The Bush Theatre invited me to give a talk tonight in their RADAR Festival of new writing. It was a