‘You have killed yourself/and saved me’
With a new book of poetry and a role teaching therapeutic writing, Claire Williamson talks to Marc Leverton about the healing power of words
Therapeutic writing may be a bit of an outsider to the ‘writing establishment’, but Bedminster- based author and therapeutic writing tutor Claire Williamson (right) knows how [...]
Issue Number 10 Summer 2009
Features from this issue:
Incredible Journeys- Everyday Narratives
September 10th, 2009 ·
Sounds of Music
September 10th, 2009 ·
A brilliant photographic project that was shelved almost 20 years ago was eventually published in July this year…
Sounds of Music is a collaboration between photographer Frank Drake and designer Simon Bishop that should have been published back in 1990. The book was about to be printed when the publisher was taken over by a bigger [...]
Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall 1880-1940, Dictionary and Source-book- Melissa Hardie
August 4th, 2009 ·
Artists began arriving in Cornwall in increasing numbers with the opening of the railways; the trickle became a stream and by the end of the 19th century, the stream was a rushing torrent. As many as 2,000 individuals were coming and going, some teaching, others being taught, but most pursuing at least a part-time living [...]
High Times at the Hotel Bristol:Twenty Bedside Tales- Roger Williams
August 4th, 2009 ·
Roger Williams’ genre-defying collection of short stories opens with the intriguing question which inspires the entire book: why on earth call a hotel Bristol? There are – as the book reveals – an astonishing number of Hotel Bristols, from the grand Royal Meridien Bristol, Warsaw, to the somewhat more downscale Bristol Hotel, San Francisco, and [...]
Get The Presentation X-Factor- Tina Coulsting Carter
July 27th, 2009 ·
Author Tina Coulsting Carter claims that she was shy and painfully inarticulate in her younger years. But inspired by a training programme about making presentations (starring Mel Smith, as it happened, playing Christopher Columbus pitching to the king and queen of Spain for funds to discover America), she began to develop her own communication skills. [...]
The Architect’s Tale- William Bertram
June 29th, 2009 ·
Last year, Bath architect Willie Bertram built England’s ‘most expensive house’– the £35 million Hampstead residence of Israeli diamond dealer Lev Leviev. Also in London, and with a touch of James Bond, he’s building a house within a house for a wealthy client, turning the inside of an industrial-like shell into a disguised, three-storey mansion.
In [...]
The Cornish Review Anthology 1949-52
June 1st, 2009 ·
Post-war Cornwall saw a flowering of the arts and literature. Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth spearheaded the modernist movement in Britain, the Leach Pottery attracted worldwide attention and Cornish culture was celebrated.
Writer and editor Denys Val Baker was at the heart of all this activity. His Britain’s Art Colony by the Sea became an iconic [...]
The Ruling Passion- David Pownall
June 1st, 2009 ·
To those who know their British history, Piers Gaveston was the flamboyant, arrogant, ambitious man lurking behind the throne of the weak–willed Edward II – a king’s spoilt favourite who brought England to the brink of civil war.
The Ruling Passion, David Pownall’s eleventh novel, is a story of infatuation and a relationship pursued to destruction. [...]
