Thursday, 4 December 2008
PhD Update
This blog contains some pieces of short fiction from my Masters Degree Dissertation: A Collection of Short Stories set in Covent Garden, and also some unrelated poetry and prose. It is not meant to be a definitive example of my work to date, but rather a taster of previous works. There is also a writing CV here.
I look forward to 2009, and being able to write here that the novel is complete!!! If you would like a taster of the novel, please email me with the reasons for your interest, and I will see what I can do!
Many thanks,
Lisa
Thursday, 24 July 2008
CV Update
Latest CV addition:
Translation work for a Cd/album shortly to be released, featuring Piano Sonatas played by Alfonso Calderon. I translated the Introduction and Sonata information from Spanish into English. June 2008.
Friday, 29 February 2008
Poetry for no apparent reason (do we need one?)
Journeys I
Clunk, but no click
in 1976
seat as wide as a double bed
smuggled toys hiding
in the foot-well
waves through the window
and I
a small thing
carried along endless roads
twisting and winding
through the mountains of rock
winter snows beginning
to take hold
the moon follows
like an abandoned pet
flat-lining
roads long and straight
an eternity of wheat fields
wanting to pee
wanting to go home
and then ice cracking
smashing seas with iron bow
rocking and rolling
across the ocean
to white cliffs of chalk
topped in green baize
orange ribbons of sulphur lights
burning into the night sky
obscuring the stars
still wanting to pee
still wanting to go home
but home is where the heart lies
Fraud
You are a fraud
pertaining to be
a solid object.
‘I am,’ you said,
‘That is enough.
To be.’
But you are just
as much an empty space
as me.
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on being
i can hear them constantly asking me
for forgiveness
asking for the earth
as though i have something to do with it
my voice is silent;
angrily assertive
my migraine worsens,
constant prayers.
i told al about it
he said i should listen
to his lot
wailing at all hours-
silence is my truth
i am nothing;
a product of mind,
an eddy in the void
(i go largely unheard)
hui neng reminded me
of the mountain that is
then isn’t
then simply is
of the mirror nowhere
shining bright
i took it to mean
don’t get involved
he laughed
a figment of the imagination
like my migraine
Friday, 1 February 2008
Writing CV
Poetry: *Am not really a poet but dabble in it*
Poems included in Edge Hill's publication, 'Peggy's Blue Skylight', Issues No 3 & No 4, edited by Robert Sheppard.
Non-Fiction: *Lurve non-fiction*
2 Letters published in The Times Educational Supplement, 'Friday' magazine. 2002 + 2004.
Editing: What Shall We Write - An anthology of short stories by Year 4 children who attended my after-school writing club. The aim was that all profits from the sale of extra copies produced by the school would go into the English Department budget. 2003.
Article - won first prize for an article on 'Teacher Training', for ATL (Association of Teachers and Lecturers). 2003.
Two essays in The Road to Somewhere: A Creative Writing Companion Eds. Graham, et al. Palgrave Macmillan. 2004.
Fiction: *This is where I wanna be though*
'Bear Cubs' Short Sory published in Edge Hill's publication 'Two 4 Four', Issue 5, Spring 2002. The story was also broadcast on Radio Lancashire and was on their website for a time.
'The Little God of Insignificance' - Certificate of Merit at the Mere Literary Festival. 2004.
Short Stories - Commissioned to write a series of shorts for Young Voice - a children's charity. 2006.
Conference Papers: *Well 'paper' singular, but more to come, and got over the performance terror*
'From 7 Words a Day to The Squirms: Writer's Block - Myth or Reality?' 21 July 2007 at the Annual Short Story Conference at Edge Hill University.
This paper seeks to find an answer to the question of writer's block, and whether or not it is a reality, or an imagined condition. Drawing on a range of sources, from published writers to my own experiences, it is an investigative journey into writing processes and disruptions to those processes, arriving at the conclusion that perhaps such silences are indeed an integral and crucial part of creativity.
On-line Stuff: *Other stuff out there but you can jolly well find it yourself if you're that bothered!*
Spanish Tips at The Guardian
Current Work: *Need BIG KICK UP BUM with this one*
PhD: Out of Place: A Novel with an Exegesis: Hybridity in Form and Content.