Writer, ecologist, and professor. T1.
Tarns, meres, lochans
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MY STAMMER MADE ME
Ever been lost for words? This episode of The Life of Words explores stammering, silence, and how struggle can shape a writer. Two quick writing exercises at the end help you break through creative block.
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Page versus stage isn’t a choice. It’s one craft in two spaces.
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What grounds us? I join Ian McMillan, Owen Sheers, Jason Allen-Paisant and Helen Mort to explore the poems that hold us to the world, from Raymond Carver to Fiona Benson and The Laurel Prize.
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Why is Anne Carson so brilliant? Join me in exploring Carson’s extraordinary writing, from the strange energies of her language to Nox, her remarkable book of fragments, memory and loss.
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"Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do" Autobiography of Red
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I’m part of this week’s edition of The Verb, where Ian McMillan brings together Owen Sheers, Jason Allen‑Paisant, Helen Mort and me to share poems that steady and ground us, including Raymond Carver's final poem and epitaph. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032qv…
Who are you as a writer? The Road Less Travelled By shows how tension, loyalty, and subtle shifts in language shaped two lives. Then the writing exercise asks what shapes yours. Listen now on The Life of Words.
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The new Sense and Sensibility film is here. On The Life of Words I look at how Austen’s title works as two temperaments that shape Elinor and Marianne. The episode ends with a writing exercise drawn from her craft. #TheLifeOfWords
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What happens when words collide? In this new episode of The Life of Words, we head out to the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust to observe kennings in action: words striking each other with the energy of nuclear fission.
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How do you put longing into a single word? Filmed on the windblown cliffs of the Gower, this episode of The Life of Words explores heartache and love through the beautiful Welsh word hiraeth. Plus, a new creative writing game.
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Looking forward to reading at Poetry in Aldeburgh next November. It’s a great festival, and I’m very pleased to be part of it.
Who else is going?
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Who Is Spiderman?
Everyone has an origin story. What’s yours?
In this personal episode of The Life of Words, David Morley explores his own unlikely journey into writing. There’s also a new creative writing game for you to play.
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We Live in a World Made of Words
In this episode, filmed at London’s Somerset House, we explore how language surrounds us, shapes what we see and gives the world its meaning. There's also a great creative writing game for you.
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The Spring Where Stories Begin
I've made a new web series called The Life of Words.
Why do some places seem to ask us for a story? In this episode, we explore what happens when a landscape enters language.
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During a solar eclipse, the gaps between leaves on trees act as multiple pinhole cameras,
and each gap projects its own crescent-shaped image of the eclipsed sun onto the ground.
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Nature has a language. We have been speaking it for thousands of years.
I explore the hidden magic of form: the patterns that shape leaves, living things, poems and stories
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As AI learns to create, what can nature teach us about creativity?
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Every word has a hidden life.
I've made a new web series called The Life of Words.
Episode 5 asks: Can a single word contain an entire universe?
New episodes appear every week.
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Every word has a hidden life. I’ve made a new web series called The Life of Words. This episode looks at Ernest Hemingway's iceberg metaphor. The fourth episode is here. Check it out:
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Every word has a hidden life.
In the Life of Words, I explore creativity. This episode looks at the power of metaphor: why the point of a riddle/poem is never simply the answer.
New episodes will appear every Tuesday.
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