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Autumn

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Phillip Ellis I won’t say that this thought has always struck me as evident, or even possible, but, for a

Form and Content

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Phillip Ellis Part of my poetic practice involves mastering as many poetic forms as I can. By being able to

Worldplay and the Writer

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Tracy Ryan What are you able to build with your blocks? Castles and palaces, temples and docks. Rain may keep

Novels about Writers: Lost Illusions

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Tracy Ryan Novels about writers are sometimes decried as running the risk of being boring, self-indulgent, or failing in imagination,

Belated Reads

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Tracy Ryan We probably all have our list of favourites from early in life, but what about the books it

Creative Collaboration

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Tracy Ryan Though I happily work as part of a team at other things, as a writer, I am not

Willing Suspense: Simenon, Highsmith, Rendell – and Others?

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Tracy Ryan Over the last decade or so I’ve become increasingly interested in suspense fiction. Though “suspense” is an element

Repetition Compulsion: Reading Glen Duncan

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by Tracy Ryan When it comes to reading fiction, I’m not averse to the single isolated encounter. It may be

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