Crawlers, spiders and bots, o my

a silly handrawn image of a spider!

Since my last post about the huge spike in this site's visitors and views (up over 500%) I'm pretty sure that it's not my content but another, more malicious, activity causing my sudden popularity. I've learned more about internet bots, sometimes called spiders and crawlers, systematically browsing the web for content or (in my case)… Continue reading Crawlers, spiders and bots, o my

Poetry, art, and translation, in collaboration

Cover of 'Six Poems' by Josephine Corcoran featuring an intaglio print by Pauline Scott-Garrett, a child's white dress on a blue background

Recently I've taken a detour from my slow-burning fiction writing (mentioned in a previous post) and dipped back into poetry to collaborate with artist Pauline Scott-Garrett, and Spanish tutor and film programmer Lorena Pino Montilla, on a poetry project. For some time, Pauline's art has engaged with issues surrounding human dislocation, displacement and exile, most… Continue reading Poetry, art, and translation, in collaboration

Just to say…

sweetpeas from my garden in a small jar of water

I'm still here, beavering away with pen and notebooks, typing up multiple drafts of assembled words which might pass as 'stories' (or, more accurately, beginnings of stories) and printing them out to re-write and edit, collecting many reams of paper in the meantime. In 2020, my aim was to write fiction again, rather than poetry,… Continue reading Just to say…