Literacy: Commas, colons, connectives and conjunctions

About Phil Beadle

Phil Beadle knows a bit about bringing creative projects to fruit. His self-described 'renaissance dilettantism' is best summed up by Mojo magazine's description of him as a 'burnished voice soul man and left wing educationalist'. He is the author of ten books on a variety of subjects including the acclaimed Dancing About Architecture described in Brain Pickings as 'a strong pointed conceptual vision for the nature and origin of creativity'. As songwriter Philip Kane his work has been described in Uncut magazine as having 'novelistic range and ambition' and in Mojo as having a 'rare ability to find romance in the dirt' along with 'bleakly literate lyricism'. He has won national awards for both teaching and broadcasting was a columnist for the Guardian newspaper for nine years and has written for every broadsheet newspaper in the UK as well as the Sydney Morning Herald. Phil is also one of the most experienced gifted and funniest public speakers in the UK.