I’ve been reading quite a lot about literary minimalism as I embark on another draft of the novel. It’s been interesting to re-read early...
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by Matthew Henley | Feb 21, 2019
Over the last twelve months for nearly every waking moment I can spare when not working, I have been writing feverishly, first a feature-length...
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by Matthew Henley | Aug 3, 2017
I’m sitting here by candlelight, on a hot summer’s evening in Sarajevo. It’s been a hot day, well up in the thirties, and the night has...
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by Matthew Henley | Mar 10, 2017
Last night I sat in a semi-deserted cinema in Sarajevo watching ‘Paterson’. It’s a film by Jim Jarmush about a poet who drives a bus in...
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by Matthew Henley | Aug 12, 2016
I’ve spent the last two weeks in Vancouver, at the University of British Columbia, on the UBC summer writers’ residency. UBC is a huge...
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by Matthew Henley | May 10, 2016
The ImagiNation Festival in Quebec City was great fun. It was cold for Spring, even by Quebec standards, a chilly -9 C at times. But, despite...
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by Matthew Henley | Apr 6, 2016
As trailed in my previous blog, I’ll be reading in Quebec City on Saturday 10th March, as a guest of Quebec City’s ImagiNation 2016 Literary...
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by Matthew Henley | Mar 5, 2016
How much of the meaning a poem or piece of fiction, is provided by the writer? And how much by the reader? And does it matter whether it’s...
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by Matthew Henley | Dec 20, 2015
December 1819 was an unhappy month for the poet John Keats. His beloved younger brother, Tom, had died of tuberculosis on 1 December, while...
READ MOREPaying my respects at Verdun
by Matthew Henley | Oct 12, 2015
It’s been a while since my last blog. That’s mostly because I have been incredibly busy setting up in a new city. No matter how many times I...
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