Reading July-September 2026 At some point as I draw together impressions of my reading over a quarter of a year I’m always struck by a thread that runs through them. As disparate as this quarter’s books are, across genres and cultures, across settings and styles, they each have something to offer on how being bodies … Read more
Reading from April to June 2026 In a noisy world, whose voices we hear is so often mediated by systems of power and lack of it. The cacophony of a war-making, death-revelling elite may feel the loudest thing in so many lives, but then there are books — witnessing to other ways of being, refusing … Read more
A celebration and an invitation I wake in a foreign country, in a scrap of forest in the middle of nowhere, beside a love I’ve known only a decade. How did I get here? Iona, June 1984. We have gathered for a week of retreat, to ponder our stories as women. We eat, cook, clean … Read more
Reading Januaury to March 2026 Across a bunch of months I read by seeing what calls to me from ever-growing ‘to read’ pile stacked neatly between my desk and a bookshelf in the room where I write. I never set out with a theme, but inevitably one emerges. We’re pattern-making, story-telling creatures and our reading … Read more
Reading October to December 2025 I am increasingly hungry for story. Whether it comes in poetry, not alway narrative poetry, but the lyrical and oblique too, or memoir or art process or fiction, this delving into how we work, how the more-than-human world works, how we make meaning, is endlessly fascinating. And we never come … Read more