I wrote this in the library of the university where I worked for a decade and a half. These days as I concentrate on writing I’m using the library space as a form of mini-retreat. I know there are writers who can take themselves off to a nearby café or coffee shop but I get…
Category: Convoy
One year on….
I came close to calling this blog post being a ‘proper’ writer as it’s a year since Convoy was published and so I’ve been reflecting on the past year. In lots of ways life goes on just as it did before publication; there’s still laundry to be done, children to be collected from school and…
Thomas Francis Neil, DFC*, AFC, AE
Tom Neil had already fought in the Battle of Britain when he was posted to Malta in the summer of 1941. He is well known for his books on his wartime experiences; Gun Button to Fire, Onward to Malta, Questions of Guilt (short stories), Flight into Darkness (short stories). His most recent book is Silver…
The rest is silence
I have been thinking about ‘voice’ a lot recently as many of the poems in my Malta sequence are written in men’s voices, apart from the section in my mother’s voice as a young girl. We discussed the use of voice at the end of the last Cinnamon Press course. One of the other participants…