Brilliant book. Love it.

Looks fab. So sorry I can't make it.

Also The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo.

The Long Take by Robin Robertson. Brilliant.

Thank you!

I group the notes with other reading notes to get a synthesis on a subject in a different order of thinking and then sift that to write from.

Yes. It's very slow but it works. The writing is the easiest part. The note taking is where the thought happens.

Read/take notes/sift/rewrite notes/sift/write/repeat

8. In the 1980s there was a committee of British cartographers checking maps for correctness - in pursuit of the ethics of accuracy. This story may be apocryphal but think what they would have made of phone maps! (JB Harley Deconstructing the Map, 1989).

Yes and I cover that from a Glissant and embodied memory pov.

And worm its way into the listeners memories and becomes their space and not the poet's