The website of writer and poet Daniel Bennett
The first book I ever featured on this blog was Walter Tevis's Mockingbird. An old friend passed on his copy to me, after we'd met up after a few years apart. At the time, I'd fallen out with fiction, and part of the reason I started this blog saw me pick through how I'd come … Continue reading The Man Who Fell To Earth
'In the evening, I'd pour myself a glass of very strong rum on the rocks, and I'd write hardboiled poems...' Pedro Juan Gutierrez I've spent my writing life on the periphery. It's not only a matter of success, or lack of, although that certainly plays its part. You stand watching the dance floor with your … Continue reading Genre and the Edges
Absence Club 