Landeg White
It was with shock that I learned last week of the death of the poet Landeg White, at his home in Portugal. He was seventy-seven years old. Landeg, who was born in Taff’s Well, near Cardiff, published around a… Read More
Ricardo Blanco’s Blog
- Narrative HorrorA conversation with an old friend, while driving to Bristol airport earlier this month, led me back along the wild mountain tracks of memory, and an introduction to what psychologist Martin Conway refers to as the self-memory system... Read More The post Narrative Horror appeared first on Richard Gwyn.
- What’s in a name?Regular readers of these posts — and if you do not already subscribe to the email, please do so in the space provided on the right — will have noticed that last week I dropped the moniker Ricardo... Read More The post What’s in a name? appeared first on Richard Gwyn.
- The problem of who you wereContinuing my series of Walks in the Black Mountains. Content warning: alongside description of the actual walks, these extracts also contain my thoughts about writing as well as an amateur’s excursions into the study of consciousness, philosophy of... Read More The post The problem of who you were appeared first on Richard Gwyn.
- How long can you stay focused on anything at all . . .I have been wondering about the capacity of the mind to focus on anything for more than a few seconds at a time. A lot has been published on this topic in recent years, especially relating to children’s... Read More The post How long can you stay focused on anything at all . . . […]
- This falling away and return is what we areOver the past couple of years I have been been keeping a record of walks I take in the Black Mountains, some of which have a philosophical or meditative tone to them, others not. I am unsure quite... Read More The post This falling away and return is what we are appeared first on Richard […]
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