As someone who writes news stories at work and children’s stories at home, mixed in with the odd rhyme or two and various other bits and bobs, poetry has recently fallen a little by the wayside. So, with a bit of excitement and a little trepidation (it’s the reading aloud of work produced on the […]

“The world has no pity on a man who can’t do or produce something it thinks worth money. You may be a divine poet, and if some good fellow doesn’t take pity on you you will starve to death by the roadside.” “…the libraries are indispensable. Do you suppose the public would support the present […]

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(This is generally going to be a weekly blog but posts may be more frequent as and when items of interest arise.) At lunchtime today I bid farewell to probably the most interesting work experience student we have ever had in our newspaper office and one of the reasons for this may just be the […]

What more could a writer wish for than to spend an afternoon in the presence of one of Northern Ireland’s top authors and playwrights? Add in a hot pot of tea, a chocolate muffin and a crowd of fellow scribes all cosied together in the Verbal Arts Centre on a snowy afternoon and you have (for […]