Robert Dickinson

Robert Dickinson

Robert Dickinson is the author of two volumes of poetry, Micrographia and Szyzgy (with Andrew Dilger), a comedy drama, Murder’s Last Case, and the libretto for Joby Talbot’s choral work Path of Miracles. The Noise of Strangers is his first novel. He lives in Brighton.

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Author's blog

Robert Dickinson

Forthcoming

Ace Stories at the Pelirocco Hotel,  Sunday 4 March. Chichester Writing Festival , Friday 30 March. February, however, will be relatively quiet. Apart from attending these events on the 18th and 23rd...

Just asking

I’ve recently had cause to take Boots own-brand codeine and paracetamol tablets (“for acute moderate pain” according to the enclosed leaflet). Maximum recommended daily dosage is 8; ...

Bookstock Reviewed

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Further sightings

Wednesday, 22nd June. I will be appearing at the next  Speaky Spokey.    ...

Self promotion

Bookfest The above link is for an event next Friday. There’s an interestingly varied  line-up of poets and, to add an extra element of randomness, an open mic. Disclaimer: I am one of the peopl...

If you build it, they will come. Probably.

I’d checked train times before I left. I hadn’t checked if there would be any trains. Still, the replacement bus service ran smoothly enough and I reached Crawley on time, Waterstones had ...

Forthcoming

Marking Our Turf Gardening, Satire & Niche in Contemporary Writing At Waterstones in Crawley, Sunday 3rd April. This is what the event was supposed to be; unfortunately Kay Sexton, the author of a...

Context

Surprised to hear Jon Snow on Channel Four News raise the question whether Ghaddafi “should be taken out” – and not in the sense of bought a meal and shown a good time. “Taken ...

Grote, again

“I have specified briefly each of the two or three hundred towns which agreed in bearing the Hellenic name, and recounted its birth and early life, as far as our evidence goes . . .” It...

Lost worlds

Still plodding through Grote’s History. He’s one of those writers who seems to rise and fall with his subjects: there’s an arid stretch on the migrations of the Hellenic peoples whic...