Seven Makar-ish Things
19 February 2022
A Makarship must give you time to write, it should suggest how to turn that into a performance or a publication, and, ideally, fund it. Such a set-up understands that the writer, their community, heritage, and artistic peers are all equals.
The Thursday Post: 400 years of Shakespeare
20 April 2016
Image: Shakespeare's Words by Meg, under a Creative Commons licenceThe Thursday Post: The Kaki Tree
6 August 2015
Image: Morven Gregor Thinking of myself as a phoenix,
cling on until now.
But how painful they have been,
those twenty-four years past. Those words were written by Tsutomu Yamaguchi, often described as the luckiest – sometimes as the unluckiest – man of all...