Home for Christmas; wonderful family news; the eternal in the everyday.
Reading: 'Walking Home' (Merion West, 2025), by Joseph Hunter
Sunlight is a gift
14/12/2025 | 15 mins.
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Readings: speech from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare; 'The Fighting Temeraire (1838), by Joseph Hunter (unpublished).
It's how you shape it
07/12/2025 | 17 mins.
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Reading: 'Dream piano' (unpublished), by Joseph Hunter
Babies, books, and Knausgård
30/11/2025 | 18 mins.
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.
Life is a performance
10/10/2025 | 17 mins.
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Reading: extract from The Birds that are Caught (unpublished), by Joseph Hunter.
Thinking about writing, talking about writing, and getting writing out of my system.
I'm Joseph Hunter: fiction writer, Creative Writing PhD candidate, and teacher. This podcast sees me reflect on the writing process, why we write, and how we can write better.
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