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7th December 2012
Novels, Seoul Survivors

Announcing Seoul Survivors – Plus Playlist!

Novelist Bridget Whelan and poet Sarah Hymas have both invited me to join ‘The Next Big Thing’, a game of blog-tag in which I interview myself about my next book, and introduce my readers to five more writer friends. Well, the next big thing for me (after my Christmas card list) is the Feb 2013 publication of my first novel,…

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Anais Nin David Mitchell Haruki Murakami Jo Fletcher Books Mia Yun Ryu Murakami Seoul Survivors William Gibson

9th August 2012
Astra, Novels

Or Daughter comes out to play

For a poet, used to fretting over lines and images for months, writing a novel in a year is a fascinating, not to say teeny-tiny bit terrifying challenge.  I am enjoying it, though, and starting to really trust the process – there’s something immensely reassuring about the way the words flow onto the page, and one chapter springboards into another. …

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Astra Jo Fletcher Books MaMSIE Pamela Turton-Turner Rona Pondick Veronique Olmi

25th June 2012
Iceland 2012, Novels

A Small State in Hot Water

          To conclude my travel research for my second novel, Astra, I visited Iceland for a week. Astra is set in Mesopotamia in a new nation called Is-Land, a small state formed in the aftermath of a global environmental and economic collapse (we all know it’s coming, don’t we?).  In Icelandic, Iceland is called Ísland, but…

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Astra Eyafjallajokull Gullfoss Hellisheiði Power Plant Hvolsvöllur Iceland Rebecca Solnit Reykjavik Þingvellir Þorsmörk

6th June 2012
Israel-Palestine 2012

The Freedom Theatre Under Attack

              As reported by Mondoweiss, last night at 3am, Israeli troops entered the home of my host in Jenin, Nabil Al Raee, Artistic Director of the Freedom Theatre, and arrested him at gunpoint.  The soliders gave Nabil and his wife Micaela no explanation for their actions, and their intrusion terrified his three-year old daughter. …

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BWISP Jenin Nabil Al Raee The Freedom Theatre

3rd June 2012
Israel-Palestine 2012, Kurdistan & Palestine 2012, Travels

Seven Wonders of the West Bank

Note: for the benefit of readers hazy in the geopolitical department, a short history of the West Bank is included at the end of this post. I don’t think you have to visit a country in order to have a valid opinion about it, but as a writer-activist, and a vocal advocate of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement since…

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BDS Cinema Jenin Jenin Juliano Mer Khamis Nablus Palestine Palestinian Walks The Freedom Theatre The West Bank

18th May 2012
Israel-Palestine 2012, Travels

Jerusalem: What Apartheid Looks Like

Jerusalem.  The Holy City.  Centre of three major world religions,  and surely a place that should transcend political differences, remind us of our shared humanity, and humble all who enter its ancient walls? For while I am not a member of any of the patriarchal Abrahamic faiths, it seems to me that Christianity, Judaism and Islam share a reverence for…

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BDS Jerusalem Mamilla Cemetery Palestine The Bookshop at the American Colony Hotel The Educational Bookshop

12th May 2012
Israel-Palestine 2012, Travels

Yaffa Rocks

First day in Israel-Palestine, and a stop in Tel Aviv en route to Jerusalem, Jenin and Ramallah.  But what to do in a city you are boycotting?  Protest, of course.  Today I joined Arab and Jewish Israeli activists demonstrating in Yaffa – AKA Jaffa or Yafo, the old Arab town now subsumed by Tel Aviv – in support of the…

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Ajami BDS Ilan Pappe Jaffa Jonathan Cook Palestine Palestinian Hunger Strikes Tel Aviv

11th May 2012
Kurdistan & Palestine 2012, Travels

The Million Star Hotel

I spent my penultimate night in Anatolia at a homestay in the village of Yuvacali (Yu-va-JA-li), following a day tour to the ‘bee hive’ houses of Harran, near the Syrian border, and the ancient sites of Sogmatar and Gőbekli Tepe – the latter, dated from 9000 BC, being the world’s oldest known religious temple.  Both experiences were courtesy of Nomad…

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Armenia Kurdistan Nomad Tours Turkey Yuvacali

8th May 2012
Kurdistan & Palestine 2012, Novels, Travels

Between the Rivers

    In our country a look a wave of the hand means the world In our country there are no terraces of paradise no rewards from ‘The North Gate’ Bejan Matur Wikipedia will give you all the background facts: 25 to 30 million Kurds inhabit the land between the Tigris and the Euphrates, a region known since antiquity as…

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Astra Bejan Matur Diyarbakir Istanbul Kurdistan Turkey

2nd May 2012
Kurdistan & Palestine 2012, Novels, Travels

I Rest My Case

                      Seen from the window of a minibus, heading out of Diyarbakir on a day trip to the Neolithic site of Çayönü.  As was this roundabout monument, which I must admit puts the twelve foot high gopher in Regina’s Wascana Park to shame.  In fact, I think it even beats…

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Diyarbakir Regina

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