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Through doing
“Leading through practice”. What is this? I’m still not sure. One example might have been with the Hyperlexic gig I ran at the Saville Exchange last Saturday. (Or as we rechristened it for the night, the Jimmy Saville Exchange, now then, now then, now then). It was something I initiated, based on my long held…
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The point
I’m inputting more than I’m processing at the moment, but a few days off over Easter, walking, eating and buying rhubarb may have helped a bit. Talking to Paul Summers, North Shields based poet and extraordinary worker with young people is always interesting. As another writer had said the week before “You go on a…
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London bound
Down to London and back in a day on the train and not such a big deal really. Someone from an animal shelter also took the 11.30 down and the 7pm back; they had a board with a photo collage on pleading for more funds, and a picnic basket with either a picnic or an…
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Re; Search
In the hallowed land of Borders bookshop I got a “How to Research” book by the Open University Press and have constructed a short questionnaire for the writers I’m going to interview in the next couple of weeks. They’re writers who already do lots of work with young people and work with New Writing North…
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Wor Poetry
I went to the launch of the Foyle Young Poet’s competition at the Sage this week. Was surprised that anyone would express surprise that there are few North East entrants. Foyle and Poetry Society feel far away from the North East and I don’t see much publicity around. Quite apart from the fact that it…
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Only connect
Still researching. Talking, googling, thinking, reading. Roddy Doyle’s “Fighting Words” centre in Dublin, modelled on Dave Eggars’ 826 Valencia in San Francisco. I send an email, asking if I can come over and see what they’re doing. That part of this placement is a luxury. I would have wanted to do that anyway. Wouldn’t have been…
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In the beginning
Through the window of the New Writing North offices the view is entirely blocked by the scaffolded edifice of a new university building. Perhaps this is a metaphor. Perhaps it’s just part of a sentence constuction. Anyway. I’m here with a shiny identity card, use of a desk, Mac, phone and shelf in a little…
Kate Fox. Writer, Broadcaster and Performer: Where There's Muck, There's Bras. 