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Some Small Brilliant Things (opens the original)
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The last couple of weeks’ posts here have been pretty heavy. So this week, inspired by the show Every Brilliant Thing and the “things that are worth the money” format that’s been making its way around Instagram lately, I thought I’d share some Small Brilliant Things. If you’re new to Every Brilliant Thing, it’s a one-person show that involves its whole audience. The actor on stage is the central character, and
Optimism Through Gritted Teeth, Dammit (opens the original)
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Last week I saw this photo of Hyde Park, in London, turned a desert-beige by weeks on end of unbroken hot sunshine. <img alt="" class="s
Books That Make You Go "Hmm" (opens the original)
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But first - there are just two more days to get in on the first month of Poems Through Your Letterbox - sign up by the 5th of August to get this month’s poem through your letterbox next week!1 The last month has been great for reading. Since the start of July, I’ve finished 16 books (look, it’s been too hot to go out much), and there’s three in particular that have tickled my brain. The first two are <a href="https://uk.bookshop.
I Will Not Cut My Hair, I Will Not Lower My Voice (and a New Project!) (opens the original)
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Scroll down to find out more about an Exciting New Thing…At some point last year, the Instagram algorithm served me up a video of the incredible Lucy Darling doing crowd work at one of her gigs. She’s a larger-than-life character created by magician, comedian, drag artist, and all-round good egg Carisa Hendrix. If you’ve not yet had the pleasure of seeing Lucy at work, here are a few representative clips: one, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel
Creative Pursuits and Back To Basics (opens the original)
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When I put together a bingo card of things I was keen to do in 2026, I put ‘write more poems’ on it. Whenever I’m regularly crafting and shaping poetry, I feel so much more myself, and yet it seems hard to fit into everyday life. Unlike fiction writing, there isn’t a simple word-count based target you can work to, and also unlike fiction writing, there’s no clear pathway of what to do when you’re done with a poem. (When is a poem even ‘done’? Who knows?) With fiction, you edit and edit and then
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