Sue Guiney: Writing Life

The Reading Life: "The Accident on the Beach" by Sarah - from The An...: Sue Guiney's Introductory Post   - contains important links  My Overview of the Project My Q and A with Dana Hui Lim author of Mother an...

I'm very pleased to be able to present another Great Conversation. This time, I'm chatting with a novelist/poet whose work I have very much grown to admire, and not only because he is a fellow Ward Wood writer.Colin Bell is a very talented man w...

Noel Duffy is one of my favourites. I love his prose, sure, but today I want to talk to him about his latest poetry collection, a wonderful work which I read from cover to cover without stopping. And that's something I rarely do with a poetry collect...

I had a wonderful ten days in the States, where I split my time between New York, Martha's Vineyard and Boston, the three focal points of my American life. I do appreciate each of those places for different reasons and in different ways, but within t...

James Taylor singsThe National AnthemThe Sox take the fieldThe planets were well aligned. We were due to be in Boston this week anyway, but then the Red Sox won their place in the 2013 World Series and we were determined to go to a game. It was...

Now here is something I am very happy to boast about. Last night, at an event at the Bloomsbury Festival in London, a new and very unique publication was launched. In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights is an ambitious new publication, spon...

It seems to be festival season around here. Bankside, London, is in the midst of the Merge Festival, which is the local immersive arts festival. Its aim is to provide a series of events which showcase and draw on the rich heritage and contemporary cu...