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The Genre Swap, part 3
Emma Darwin and Annie Caulfield meet up again to discuss how they got on with their genre swap. Emma Darwin…
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Venus Rising
James McConnachie, in search of a book idea, rekindles a lost passion. Eager for a book project to plunge into,…
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…