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Juliet Gilkes Romero, part 2
10-08-2023

Juliet Gilkes Romero speaks with Ann Morgan about telling history’s forgotten stories, writing about intersectionality, chasing down inconvenient truths, and the experience of taking up a writing residency at one of the UK’s most revered theatres.

Cliff Forshaw — How I Write
'This impetus to make Ovid ‘new’ resulted in various narratives of bodily modification, from sex changes to the extreme body artist Orlan, who through plastic surgery recreates herself as mythic figures. This sort of ‘translation’ is a large part of how I write.'
Ian Ayris & Elizabeth Cook
25-05-2023

Ian Ayris reveals how stories have been his constant companions, accompanying him through the darkest periods of his life and ultimately shaping his identity.

Elizabeth Cook explores how losses of all kinds shape us and may sometimes lead us to richer discoveries.

Clare Pollard — The Festival Experience
'My first year at Latitude it was baking with sunshine and I ended up having a drink under a tree with John Cooper Clarke, who heard one of my gloomy poems and called me 'Sylvia'.'
Ut Pictura Poesis
Cliff Forshaw, painter and poet, describes how honing his craft in one medium informs the other, and how experimenting with form influences both his art and his writing.
Reversifying Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud: rebel poet, precocious surrealist and ill-fated adventurer. Cliff Forshaw describes his fascination with Rimbaud and how translating his work led to a reinvention of the man himself.
Listerary Fiction
Written lists have existed for millennia. So often considered the stuff of everyday life, Dilys Rose argues that, in literature, lists can inspire, challenge and enlighten.
What Else Have I To Spur Me Into Song?
A change of place, finding a new muse, pausing on a London bridge, all can stimulate the writer's imagination again, says John Greening. From a sexual potency operation for W.B.Yeats, to Clive James’ terminal illness, there are many ways to trigger inspiration.
Clare Pollard
25-01-2018

Clare Pollard talks with Julia Copus about her experiences of motherhood, her thoughts about politics, and how it feels to be labeled a ‘Bad Girl’ of the literary scene.

Julia Copus & Basir Kazmi
08-12-2016

Julia Copus explores the way that poetry, through its control of language, can influence the perception of time.

Basir Kazmi considers the ‘stage of the mind’, and whether the real measure of a playwright is the script as written word.

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