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Lyndsay Kaldor's avatar

Thank you for this Katy, you have given me a lot of new (to me) books to add to my towering TBR! I have finally just begun Clover’s My Wild & Sleepless Nights, and I am hooked. I love what you say about our memoirs taking different forms other than words. It also made me think of Joanna Wolfarth’s upcoming writing workshop Picturing Mother about visual depictions of ‘mother’ xx

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Katy Wheatley's avatar

There are just too many books! Not that I'm complaining. x

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Lynn Hanford-Day's avatar

It wasn’t until I took a memoir writing course with Monique Roffey two years ago that I realised how much I read memoir and remembered how as a child I wanted to be an author, so much so, that my mum bought me an Olivetti typewriter as a Christmas present in 1970. I was 9. The course with Monique inspired me to start my Substack and try writing more regularly. I love Cathy Rentzenbrink’s book Write It All Down and her monthly writing sessions. I took a course with MsLexia on memoir writing which was outstanding.

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Katy Wheatley's avatar

Ah! I love Cathy Rentzenbrink, too. x

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Jo's avatar

Thank you, more books added to an endless TBR pile, thank goodness for libraries.

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Katy Wheatley's avatar

My library pile is ludicrous at the moment!

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June Girvin's avatar

Such an interesting post. I love Maggi Hambling's work, especially her portraits - they say so much about a person.

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Katy Wheatley's avatar

They do. There's a wonderful one she did of Derek Jarman at his house in Dungeness which I love too. x

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Mel Erwin's avatar

A poem is a writers stock cube. 😊

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