November 07, 2007
Excuses for laziness
My apologies for the long gap: I had a deadline to write 4 poems for a new journal coming out next year. I have a long entry to post by tonight but in the mean time I direct you to a periodic reminder of the bird flu situation - http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/ - more than 90 deaths this year alone.
Genius, Novel and Thoughtcrime
As mentioned in the previous blog, my focus has been away from public activity, while there’s been a lot going on. Now more settled, Barce...

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As per the last blog, the first novel of my post-UK period, The Family Idiots , is near enough finished (just proofing, etc) so I have mov...
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Having done virtually no research about Leiria before I arrived, I was very enamored with it - a very charming little town, given what I im...
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Back in 2005, I launched the International Text Festival in Bury, Manchester. It's aim was to question, curate, display, distribute, ar...