Author archive for Chris

I have just spent a week planting trees in my garden by the sea in Euboea. In the evenings...

In Praise of Long Novels   Mann began writing The Magic Mountain before the first world war, stopped writing...

    Seamstress.   The two questions people ask me all the time are, “What made you write this...

    WHAT WRITE?   What right do I have to tell anyone how to write? None. All I...

Mad Havou. In the fractured hills of Akanthou, between two knuckles that looked like mountains lived old Havou and...

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  ‘Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.’ Robert Frost  ...