Paul Stewart
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Award-Winning Writer, Poet, Scottish-Italian, Subversive.
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5-2-6 seconds that, we will never forget His life was choked out * Thank you for reading. This is very self-explanatory. So, I won't mumble on and on as I usually do. With the Time Capsule Haiku Challenge in mind, I have been thinking of lots of different angles on the time theme. And when I was younger I used to think seconds were a lot shorter than they are. Really a lot can be achieved in just a few seconds.
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Poets
Is Walking 500 Miles (And Then 500 Miles More) Really Romantic?. Top Story - February 2023.
I love The Proclaimers. Really, I do. Craig and Charlie Reid. They are Scottish. They are twins. They are fantastic singers, write beautiful pop songs, often with very pointed socio-political lyrics and have at least one bonafide end-of-party singalong anthem in "I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)".
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Beat
Rewriting Roald Dahl's Works and Sensitivity Readers - Making Literature More Inclusive or Sanitising the Past?
There may not be a right or wrong answer to this debate, but it is one worth having. A number of online newspapers and digital magazines ran the same story, although I believe it first appeared in The Telegraph and I then read it in The Guardian and Rolling Stone. The story highlighted that there had been a variety of small, but actually significant changes to reprints of Roald Dahl's books to make them more inclusive and less offensive.
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Journal
Sorry, I'm Not Always As Good As I Should Be
I have a confession to make, folks. I am not as good as I want to be at this Vocal stuff. Let me explain. I've not been feeling very well recently. Just a stupid cold sorta virus thing that's been invading my body. I will survive, as Gloria Gaynor suggested. I had a random argument with myself about whether it was Gloria G or Donna Summer, but yes, it was Gloria G. My voice is all broken and somewhere between whiny and cracked and croaky. If it wasn't for the involuntary coughing, I'm sure I could give my best sinister old Mafiosa guy impression. Pauly Two Socks. Or something.
By Paul Stewart3 years ago in Confessions
