Writer's Therapy

Home for Christmas; wonderful family news; the eternal in the everyday.

Reading: 'Walking Home' (Merion West, 2025), by Joseph Hunter

J.W. Turner knew about the sun. Thoughts on anhedonia, and seeing the way out. The daily exercise of the mind; new YouTube follows. A new poem. An old play.

Readings: speech from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare; 'The Fighting Temeraire (1838), by Joseph Hunter (unpublished).

Learning the piano is a lesson in craft and art, and forces you to be humble. There is no writing/piano playing analogy, you imagined it.

Reading: 'Dream piano' (unpublished), by Joseph Hunter

I visit baby-raising friends, am enchanted, reflect on child-rearing as a creative process and an exercise in the unreliability of time/perception, and re-read some Knausgård.

Reading: extract from A Man in Love (2009), by Karl Ove Knausgård.

Marina Abramovitch reminds me that there is a fine line between 'real' life and performance art. And that, sometimes, going out and getting drunk with the one you love is what life is about.

Reading: extract from The Birds that are Caught (unpublished), by Joseph Hunter.