Sunday, 29 January 2017

Crowdfunding Appeal: Please Support Cull by Tanvir Bush

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Making a crowdfunding pledge is always a bit of a gamble. You are agreeing to back something that you like the sound of, but unless others d...
Wednesday, 11 January 2017

Audio Books and Disability Gain

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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver is a wonderful book. And it is a powerful example of the value added to a book by its audio ver...
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Tuesday, 3 January 2017

Best and Most Beautiful Things

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This image is the cover of the DVD: it is a shot of Michelle's legs waiting at a pedestrian crossing in the dark. Her white cane is...
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Friday, 11 November 2016

My Love Affair with Audio Books

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2016 has been a dark year for me. I'm not (just) using 'dark' here for its metaphoric (and ocularcentric) meanings of ''...
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Saturday, 1 October 2016

Towards a Multisensory Aesthetic: Jean Giono's Non-Visual Sensorium

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Next week I am delighted to be travelling to Montreal to speak at the International Visual Literacy Association Annual Conference . Along wi...
Saturday, 16 July 2016

Shades of Blindness

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I think it is fair to say that my cataract operations were successful. For the first time in three years I can read print, the world is so ...
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Monday, 11 July 2016

Book Review: 'Jules' by Didier van Cauwelaert

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Since I discovered his Goncourt-winning Un aller simple in 1995, I have always loved Didier van Cauwelaert's quirky, touching and gent...