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Roopa Farooki remembers being a brown child with white literary heroes, and Ray French considers literary identity and home vs.…
I keep your books in a box under my bed, and when I can’t sleep in the night, I take…
Deborah Chancellor discovers that the most unprepossessing commission can have its pleasures, if approached in the right frame of mind.…
Nowadays my poetry is much more serious in both intent and content, but I’m still fascinated by the intensities of…
Jane Rogers speaks with George Miller about novels vs short stories and recovering from a brain haemorrhage. Jane Rogers tells…
Writing poetry is about tuning in; language is the necessary crystal. Find the wavelength and everything connects with everything.
Former obituaries writer Nick Caistor considers how the press learned to say goodbye. Once every newspaper’s chilliest corner, the obituaries…
It was life-changing literature because it was morally ambiguous and made we want to probe the author’s philosophy and the…
Miranda Miller works to finish a novel and considers “being a brand” in her audio diary, plus two pieces from…
As with exercise, if I don’t write for a few days I begin to feel flabby and on edge. It’s…
Playwright Brian McAvera squares up to Samuel Beckett. Can a British or Irish playwright ever escape the influence of Samuel…
I’m the eldest of four children and I often say that when you’re part of a big family it’s hard…
