by Niall Bourke | Dec 17, 2019 | Reviews
Keeping with the theme of guidance for writing, I reckon you could do worse than follow some of Jack Undwerwood’s 20 poetry tenets, which I have pasted below. I had the pleasure and privilege of working with Jack at Goldsmith’s and although these ‘tenets’ are somewhat...
by Niall Bourke | Dec 17, 2019 | Reviews
I am a rapid writer, someone who works in fits and starts. I benefit from binges of work, closeted away to get down what’s been rolling around my chest for hours or days. It took a decade for me to figure this out—and another half-decade to be okay with it—but I know...
by Niall Bourke | Dec 17, 2019 | Reviews
Ever since reading his excellent ‘Open City’ I have been a big fan of Teju Cole. He is often described as ‘Sebaldian’ (you know you are doing well when you get your own adjective!). Now, I have never read Sebald but if Cole is really Sebaldian I will be adding him to...
