August 6, 2012
I’m back home from a summer break in Scotland, part of which I spent in Eshieshields, a small estate in Annandale hidden amongst lush woodland and populated by red squirrels and hares. My friends Em and Dougs live there in a tied cottage, raising their children, tending the land, keeping chickens and practising their art […]
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June 26, 2012
One of the pleasures of working for the Arvon Foundation is being visited regularly by the extraordinary and talented writers we book as tutors and guests. Our guest reader last week was the poet Paul Farley. As his latest collection The Dark Film attests, his work covers a breadth of cultural reference points – childhood […]
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