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Two poems in The Shore

Posted on December 3, 2021 by A.D. Harper

Very pleased that two of my poems appear in issue 11 of The Shore. The poems are The Gallery and No mountains, great lakes, cliffs, Thank you to the editorial team!

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Oliver Sacks on writing the present

Posted on March 28, 2017 by A.D. Harper

The most we can do is to write – intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively – about what it is like living in the world at this time. — Oliver Sacks, quoted in Bill Hayes, My Life with Oliver Sacks, The Observer, … Continue reading →

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Alan Garner on creativity

Posted on April 8, 2015 by A.D. Harper

In 1966 […] I was reading graffiti in the waiting room at Alderley Edge Station. One, done in chalk, was: “Janet Heathcoat = Alan Flask. It is true.” Somebody had added, in silver lipstick, without punctuation or a capital letter: … Continue reading →

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