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Pascale Petit explores art as catharsis, and Julia Copus considers the impact of illness on creativity. Pascale Petit explores the…
I grew up in a Northern working class household that revered the soaps of the time: Coronation Street, Emmerdale Farm…
Ian Thomson explores the psycho-geography of Thomas Lovell Beddoes’ London. In 1817 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, later poet, physician and depressive,…
Jane Draycott speaks with Julia Copus about translating the mediaeval poem “Pearl” Jane Draycott speaks with Julia Copus about her…
My little universe is archeology, the study of how we are able to get at the past in the absence…
Frances Byrnes meets Dermot Healy in a life-death situation. Living at the edge of the sea, Dermot Healy tested himself…
Ann Coburn speaks with Kona Macphee about writing life, theatre and her faith in young readers. Ann Coburn speaks with…
When my dying father contacted me after having vanished for thirty-five years and I visited him the Latin quarter, I…
Martina Evans explores switching from writing novels to poems. Martina Evans kept starting novels only to find that they turned…
What’s the best day job for a writer? RLF writers explain their other careers. The RLF provides an inside look…
Law was quite good to me; it paid the deposit on a flat. I spent underemployed afternoons writing a novel…
Rosemary Bailey discusses Ryszard Kapuściński and his impact on travel writing. Every so often a writer comes along and changes…
