Marcelle Bernstein – Why I Write
Released on April 19, 2015
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Julia Copus & Joanne Limburg
Julia Copus explores the personal in contemporary poetry, and Joanne Limburg considers the implications of honesty in memoir. Julia Copus…
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On the Jesuit Trail
John Pilkington finds literary inspiration in the espionage of 16th-century Christendom. 400 years before Burgess, Philby and Maclean, spies recruited…
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David Stuart Davies – Why I Write
Released on April 12, 2015
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Francis Spufford
Francis Spufford speaks with Carole Angier about the joys of reading and writing, and the importance of the senses. Francis…
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Cathay 100
Clare Pollard ponders what kind of China Ezra Pound could invent when he’d never been there and didn’t know the…
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Fiona Shaw – Why I Write
My novels come out of me, who I am, what is at stake in my world when I am writing,…
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Gwyneth Lewis & Simon Rae
Gwyneth Lewis explains what it’s really like to be a poet, and Simon Rae considers the merits of a multi-faceted…
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Morag Joss – Why I Write
For me, writing is a matter of fulfilling obligations; all these obligations are contractual.
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Monsters in Caves
Roopa Farooki discusses how tapping her unconscious mind allowed her writing to soar. Roopa Farooki’s problem has never been writer’s…
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Gwyneth Lewis & Joanne Limburg
Gwyneth Lewis and Joanne Limburg talk with Julia Copus about mental illness and its effects on their writing lives. Gwyneth…
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Fibber McGee’s Closet
Tom Bryan discusses how to achieve a literary legacy. Cervantes spoke of the ‘strange charm’ in hoping for a good…