Q&A with Gary Raymond
Last month I was interviewed by the excellent Gary Raymond for his BBC Radio Wales Arts Show (listen here) and last week we did a Q&A in anticipation of our chat at the Abergavenny Writing Festival tomorrow. For… Read More
John Berger and ‘bearing witness’
On page 29 of and our faces, our hearts, brief as photos, Berger describes a landscape that lies before him as he is raking hay in a field: a small hillock on which stand three neglected pear trees –… Read More
John Berger and symmetries
Following the death on the 2nd January of John Berger, a favourite writer and an inspirational human being, I was led to read (or re-read, if the annotations in pencil were truly in my hand, even if my… Read More
Ricardo Blanco’s Blog
- Raids on the Underworld
- Invisible Dog by Fabio Morábito
- Further reflections on waking at 4.00 a.m.
- Illustrious insomniacs: 4.00 o’clock or whatever time in the morning
- The Future is Dark: Woolf, Solnit, Darrieussecq . . . and the Lucy Letby trial
- On moving home, the sorrows of Gaza, and a poem about kindness
- To be always the same person
- The last Welsh speakers of the Black Mountains
- Narrative Horror
- What’s in a name?
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