Category Archives: Focus Literature
The Social Network
I’ve recently been introduced to the world of Circalit, and I have quickly let my pals at TFP know all about it too. Now it is my turn to tell you readers about it. For those of you are like minded creators, whether it be writing film or writing novels […]
Big Bad Woolf
This week I thought I’d try something different (again). I’ve wanted to try my hand at literature, and although I have ideas, I would feel far too vulnerable posting those on here. However, when I was at university, I wrote several scripts, one for my dissertation. Since I’m always talking […]
Night View from the M62
I am beginning to sound like a travel blogger, not a bad thing I hope. This week I had the honour of travelling up and down the M62 on two separate journeys, neither of which were Bradford (you will know what I mean if you have been paying attention). This […]
Tolstoy’s not so tall short stories
First, I am amazed by a phenomenon that occurs once in a while, it happens every now and again and always bemuses me, it’s simple but quite extraordinary, I think. Explanation, I haven’t been to Bradford for many a year and even then I have only been for meetings from work, never […]
Junk – A book you can’t judge by its’ cover.
Teenage fiction? If you Google the outrage of parents across the country when Melvin Burgess published ‘Junk’ you’d be surprised that he sold any copies at all. Yet even with the major controversy it went on to be a best-seller, translated into numerous languages and even adapted for TV. So […]
The Sound of Restoration
Remember David from Harlech Beach? He’s grown up. The Sound of Restoration Hey Joe, where you goin’ with that gun in your hand?[i] Hey Joe, I said where you goin’ with that gun in your hand? The advantage of having the repeat function meant the music could blare continually without […]
Ignore rule
Shall we talk poetry? Many will probably now tune out, but I see poetry and short stories as the way forward for literature, everyone is busy many say they don’t have time to read, jobs, looking for jobs, daily chores and living a life tend to use up our time in large chunks […]
Harlech Beach on Lino
Harlech Beach on Lino Used to be a sweet boy* Holding so tightly To Daddy’s hand The recently purchased DAB radio should look out of place on the 1950’s solid oak sideboard but because out of fashion things are now in fashion things it actually looked at home, it’s shadowy […]
Timepiece
Tony Harrison is a favourite of mine, his voice is blunt, warm and relevant. This poem inspired me to write a short story, hope I’ve done it some justice. First, the poem. Under the Clock, from new Poems by Tony Harrison, Penguin Books 2005 Under Dyson’s clock inLower Briggate was […]
A Circle Doesn’t Have to be Round
I have just had the rare experience of enjoying two consecutive T.V programmes one after the other-no not Coronation Street then East Enders but a BBC dramatisation of the early years of the photographer David Bailey and his relationship with Jean Shrimpton, followed by a documentary showing his continued art and life. […]
