Melanie Phillips is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. Her work is essential for all who care about creating a more rational, fair and compassionate world. Follow her journey wherever the evidence leads.
I write about almost everything, from personal essay and memoir to fiction to travel essays to politics to book reviews to thoughts on literature to novels and stories and much more.
I write about global conflict, domestic extremism and the fight against antisemitism. As a former British paratrooper, I'm one of few academic researchers in the world who go to the places they write about. Join 13,000+ readers to get the ground truth.
Trying to bring words and images together in new and interesting ways. Short stories, Poems, Visual Poems. All words and images my own. A newsletter every week and photos to Notes daily.
I am a creative, living by Lake Superior in Duluth, MN. I will share poems, prose, drawing, painting, knitting, and crochet. I hope you enjoy them. You may subscribe for $5.00/mo or view my work free of charge.
Welcome to Poetry Symposium, the music of words through poetry!
I have a love of language, nature and human connection.
PS - Stay awhile, relax and enjoy the symphony of words.
My writing and images, and Meg's art - intersections of time, place and perception. You will find poetry and prose, art, photography, and travel. Some is from my past, and some so new the ink and paint are still wet.
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Beautiful Heresy is Literary Contraband for the ones who are sick of being handled, a place where you bring your doubt, your bruises, your appetite, and you write your life back from the liars one ugly honest line at a time.
Once upon a time, I discovered I had many voices in my head and I needed a place to put them—then Substack came along.
"To suggest is to create, to name is to destroy." —Stéphane Mallarmé
Verbal snapshots of my daily life or whatever else may be on my mind. Mostly syllabic, occasionally ekphrastic (which is not the same as illustrative).
