Thank you to all of you who packed out the Troubadour last night and made the poetry reading for the launch of Magma 34 a great evening. A special thank you to the poets who gave us such a varied …
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Magma 34 out now!
I'm delighted to announce the launch of issue 34 of Magma poetry magazine, which I edited. You can read a selection of the magazine's contents on the Magma website. Poets featured in Magma 34 …
Media-Neutral Creativity
These days we hear quite a lot about "media-neutral communications planning" in marketing. Agencies such as Monkey and Naked have built their business on the insight that it's no longer enough to …
Ideas Essays for download
My friend Simon Cronshaw has just sent me a link to a series of Ideas Essays by eminent writers on creativity, available for free download from the East of England's Space for Ideas website. Titles …
Magma 34 Launch Reading – 20th March
I'm very pleased to announce the launch reading for Magma 34, which I edited, at 8pm on 20th March at the Troubadour cafe near Earls Court in London. Our headline poets, both featured in Magma 34, …
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Creativity Beyond the Creatives
At the start of his book Art Worlds, Howard S Becker quotes the following passage from Victorian novelist [tag]Anthony Trollope[/tag]: "It was my practice to be at my table every morning at 5.30a.m.; …