Thoughts from a writer in lockdown

It is well known that writers tend to be solitary creatures; it is less well known that in fact, they thrive off the world. What distinguishes a writer is not their imagination but rather the way in which they pick up, and pick up on, the world around them. They are not all trapped, like…

Why I don’t hate D H Lawrence

A lot of people hate DH Lawrence. More specifically, a lot of 70s feminists hate DH Lawrence. I (although I am admittedly not old enough to have been born in the 1970s!) do not hate DH Lawrence. In fact, I admire him. I would probably be ardently disliked by 70s feminists. Lawrence’s detractors claim that…