October 2013

Thu, 19:50: Ursula Moray Williams “has never deliberately written for children; it just happens that they like what she writes” #GobbolinoTheWitchsCat Fri, 07:19: RT @brookespoetry: Tomorrow! #landscape/#poetry exhibition (Zoe Benbow/Deryn Rees-Jones) opens @oxford_brookes til 5 Nov. Free to all. http……

Thu, 10:21: @blackwelloxford Hi! Just wondering if you got my email about The End Of All Worlds? Thu, 10:54: @EoinFlannery How about a new profile picture on your twitter? 🙂 http://t.co/u54zecAJoX

Tue, 17:09: “It was the tea-time hour, the hour when every cat is lord of his house, and every house without a cat is lonely” Gobbolino the witch’s cat Tue, 20:03: RT @Joannechocolat: Want another chance to win a LOKI…

Mon, 18:42: RT @davidjalmond: My next Guardian masterclass, Storytelling & the Imagination, is in January. Details here: http://t.co/VgfZwaYgWx Mon, 19:26: @guardian #masterclass into ways to write: story telling and imagination with @davidjalmond http://t.co/jhymeAxHVx I’d love to go to this! Mon,…

Mon, 09:35: wonders whether @oxford_brookes @space_to_think have considered Lund University’s solution for student accommodation? http://t.co/KCVzGVw4Of

Sat, 12:56: Just realised today is the 4th anniversary to the day I have worked at @oxford_brookes. Celebration sweets to me! #obod2013 #imoxfordbrookes Sat, 14:36: .@megrosoff Gove dismisses novelists’ petition as “full of vapid clichés.” And who should recognise a…

Fri, 13:50: RT @hss_brookes: Are you coming to the @oxford_brookes Open Day tomorrow? Retweet if you are! We look forward to meeting you… #obod2013 Fri, 21:06: .@cathryanhoward asks how much time do you need to write? http://t.co/QsGzndqKdI Me? I write…

The Owl Service by Alan Garner “…why didn’t you cut the pattern into flowers from the start, you silly girl?” Roger asks his step sister at the end… because we wouldn’t have been given this gloriously enjoyable story if she…

Thu, 13:41: On #NationalPoetryDay a poem about poetry… http://t.co/cWLZxvyKzV #poetry #poems Thu, 13:42: RT @brookespoetry: Happy #NationalPoetryDay! Read a selection of contemporary poems from super publishers in the #WeeklyPoem archive! http:… Thu, 15:13: To celebrate #NationalPoetryDay, a perennial favourite from…

The Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre asked people recently to share their favourite poems today. As with all favourite and best-of lists I find it very hard to choose. What strikes with you in one circumstance may not be right in…

A Day for Poetry There is a time and a place a thought; a feeling; an emotion when there is no other way to say it. It can be for sorrow and grief joy and exultation when politics angers you…

Wed, 20:30: The results are in, and I’m hated by the Daily Mail! How about you? http://t.co/cHP4gswFLv

Tue, 13:16: RT @JBHist: These talks look interesting at Oxfordshire Museum @FoOxonMuseum http://t.co/i0AFoFyYWt Wed, 10:36: I was going to be good and say no to #cake but then I discovered out was in support of @KEENOxford… http://t.co/r0zlc5lPjO

Mon, 20:11: RT @andyjshepherd: Why Kipper and Chips will never be enough for me – or my boys http://t.co/6tELp8jgxq Mon, 22:36: RT @HannahFKent: I like to work in solitude, mainly because I talk to myself a lot. (3/3) #lbbookclub @Heather__Ilene