Yvonne Coppard – Why I Write
I love the power that story has to change the world; the inspirational memoir of someone more courageous than I…
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I love the power that story has to change the world; the inspirational memoir of someone more courageous than I…
Don’t be too grateful to anyone for giving you work. You have the talent they need. Don’t be too grateful…
Donny O’Rourke on how the singer-songwriters of the 1970s helped to shape his poetic consciousness. Listening as a schoolboy to…
Their care and attention, setting words on paper, makes you feel that thrill of recognition; you know with certainty that…
Meaghan Delahunt speaks with Cherise Saywell about revolutionary beginnings, her physical drafting process and Colonial perceptions. Meaghan Delahunt speaks with…
These days it fills me with joy rather than a kind of dread; I’ve realised that I’ll be reading the…
Writers discuss their favourite book in translation. Ali Knight, Robin Blake, Sally Kindberg, Vayu Naidu, Caitlin Davies, Sarah Ardizzone and…
I took a page of writing that I felt really good about and put it in a drawer; a week…
John Pilkington on why the great diarist Samuel Pepys inspires him. As a writer of historical fiction, John Pilkington has…
Most of the Victorians I loved have lost their shine too, for me, except George Eliot; her luminous sense of…
Mimi Khalvati speaks with John Greening about Persian origins, abstraction and constrained forms and co-founding the Poetry School. Mimi Khalvati…
Ever since, at the age of five, I embarked on my career as a compulsive reader, I have been learning…