Cliff Yates speaks with Geoff Hattersley about changing from school hater to school teacher, his poetry collections and his love of performing, and shares some poems featuring his distinctive touch of surrealism.
Kathy Henderson shares the pleasure of global lullaby collecting, and highlights the enduring importance of this powerful, universal blend of words and music.
Harriet Castor is often asked how she first got published — but why is this question so popular, and is it really the right one to ask?
Cliff Yates, Jeremy Seal, Debjani Chatterjee, Peter Forbes and Ian McMillan share their all-time favourite books, and explain why they matter.
Catherine O'Flynn pens a bittersweet elegy to the freedom of aimless driving and dark nights on the urban flyovers of Birmingham.
Paul Dowswell takes a tour of the modern landscape of book reviewing, and finds it more than a little uneven.