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Ground Control to Major Tom.
March 29th, 2020
"Ground control to Major Tom.
Yes Major Tom quite a few of us at Ground Control have been quarantined. Best you stay up there. This is an illustration by Sarah McIntyre on 24th March. That's my Read more [...]
Sathianath. It means truth
February 4th, 2020
Thankyou for your generous and frankly heart warming responses to my previous post. I sent it from India. I have been at Jaipur Literature festival and then Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters Read more [...]
One hundred days of Solipsism.
January 5th, 2020
It’s December 7th 2019, exactly 100 days since the launch of My Name Is Why at The Edinburgh Book Festival. I have just arrived at Heathrow Airport from a few days filming and performing in Ethiopia. Read more [...]
Desperately Seeking Suzi
December 18th, 2019
Will you help me find “Suzi”? Her Ethiopian siblings have been searching for her for years. They want to fulfil their late parents dearest wishes to find their beloved daughter.
It started just Read more [...]
Trash Talk: Cynicism kills optimism thrills
September 2nd, 2011On digital diarrhea. If my email address is included in a rambling list of people who, it’s been determined, may have some interest in the progression, or in more cases the depression, of the Read more [...]
Zen and The Art of Driving Awareness.
September 1st, 2011I am on a drivers awareness course in Brighton .It’s brilliant. I got up at 5am and I’m here in Sussex at 8am being taught how to drive and also, it seems, how to live. it’s all going a bit Buddhist. Read more [...]
The Venous System.
August 22nd, 2011Adelaide. Australia.University of South Australia. I was talking at Magill Campus yesterday of how words can be weapons. If you are given bad words in childhood, “shot down” say, they may affect Read more [...]
Filmed: In conversation Inside.
August 20th, 2011Here for you is the film of an "in conversation" with interlocutor, author and journalist Michael Jacobs at The Bob Hawke Institute In Adelaide Australia on 18th August. The patron of The Bob Hawke Institute Read more [...]
Finding Maureen Watson.
August 19th, 2011It was 1986. I was at Edinburgh Fringe Festival performing my first play with Leigh Drama Centre. After my play finished I read poetry to very small audiences. Very. Small. Audiences. An aboriginal woman Read more [...]
The Address on the Adept Adaption
August 18th, 2011Adelaide University.The Library. Australia. “you’re the first reader of your story and that’s part of the joy of writing. It’s making the connections between what you didn’t know” said Peter Read more [...]