Lisa Evans – Letter To My Younger Self
Get angry, and don’t let them ruin your career. Your confidence is all you have and it is your job…
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Warp and Weft
Katharine Quarmby explores how adoption shapes the writer’s identity. As a transracial adoptee, Katharine Quarmby wondered if her family stories…
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Julian Evans, part 1
Julian Evans discusses his early travel writing career and becoming a reluctant biographer of Norman Lewis. Julian Evans speaks with…
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Ian Thomson – Life-changing Literature
Amid the tangled wreckage of the allied occupied city we meet a handsome if delusional GI who believes he is…
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Unseen But Not Unsung
Ron Butlin offers a backstage tour of the opera librettist’s strange and specialised world. Writers are not often told ‘the…
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Marcelle Bernstein & Carole Angier
Marcelle Bernstein explores the psychology of creativity, and Carole Angier asks whether it’s possible to teach creative writing. Marcelle Bernstein…
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Deborah Chancellor – How I Write
Whether I like it or not I work best to a paid commission with a strict deadline. As if by…
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Tumbling Down Joyce’s Stairs
Roopa Farooki ‘leans in’ to Joyce’s masterpiece. The best way to challenge the anxiety of influence, for Roopa Farooki, was…
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Pascale Petit
Pascale Petit explores her ‘Zoo Father’ with Julia Copus, and explains the connections between sculpture and poetry. Pascale Petit speaks…
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Michelle Lovric – Letter To My Younger Self
And this would be my first advice to my younger, lonely writing self; find writer friends and work with them.
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Iceboxes, Rollerballs and Tweets
John Greening explores unusual poetic materials. From William Carlos Williams’ prescription pads to George Szirtes’ Twitter-length stanzas, the medium has…
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Max Adams
Max Adams speaks with Kona Macphee about walking, geography and the joys of generalism. Max Adams speaks with Kona Macphee…