Catherine T DavidsonWords for the SilencedOn March 11, I sat in an audience of people spilling out of a gallery room at Regent’s University in London, listening to Nazanin…Mar 21Mar 21
Catherine T DavidsoninExiled Writers InkLonging at a London Arts CentreIt was a rainy Thursday in the middle of October. If you believe in energy fields, you could say that the whole city of London was subdued…Oct 27, 2023Oct 27, 2023
Catherine T DavidsonHanif Kureishi & Me“Have you read Hanif Kureishi’s blog?” my friend Maryam asked me in January, on one of our occasional former roommate calls, checking in…Sep 22, 2023Sep 22, 2023
Catherine T DavidsoninILLUMINATIONNature Table with Sue Perkins, BBC Four Extra (Poem)June 21 2023Jun 21, 2023Jun 21, 2023
Catherine T DavidsonReading in the FamilyMy mother had too many books in her house in Los Angeles. In London, I am the same. I try my best to clear them out regularly, taking them…May 12, 2023May 12, 2023
Catherine T DavidsonIn Madrid, Thinking About UnionsAs soon as I got off the plane in Madrid, I felt the sadness of our national divorce. I was coming in to spend the weekend with my American…Apr 23, 2023Apr 23, 2023
Catherine T DavidsonNotes from Now: Travelling to Newcastle with Iris DeMentOn the train ride from London to Newcastle, listening to the new Iris DeMent album, her first song, Workin’on a World, filled me. The…Mar 3, 2023Mar 3, 2023
Catherine T DavidsoninWriters in the Dark LondonPathetic Fallacy is Real: Our April 1st Writing in the Dark ExerciseThe first day of April in London was like the last day in March: a blindingly bright blue sky crossed with suddenly dark clouds, snow…Apr 4, 2022Apr 4, 2022
Catherine T DavidsoninWriters in the Dark LondonZuihitsu: text that drifts like a cloudOutside the window the sky a fast-changing sequence of cloud, dark and light, and bright, blue sky. The wind swishes the tall underwater…Feb 18, 2022Feb 18, 2022
Catherine T DavidsoninWriters in the Dark LondonA New Kind of Family PhotographI am going through the photographs, trying to find images to post to my husband’s office calendar. This year, he did not go into the office…Dec 17, 2021Dec 17, 2021