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Poetry and Covid-19 (part two)

June 2021
Anthony Caleshu chairs a lively chat about pandemic poetry with two poets: from India, Sharmistha Mohanty, and from England, David Herd.
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Poetry and Covid-19 (part one)

March 2021
Poets Rory Waterman, Linda Stern Zisquit and Declan Ryan discuss poetry in the age of Covid.
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Rob A. Mackenzie

December 2020
Rob A. Mackenzie discusses why prophets usually come to bad ends, the genius of Mark E Smith, why twitter might not be good for poets and contemporary religious poetry.
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Louise Peterkin

October 2020
Louise Peterkin discusses how her love of classic horror films inspired poems, and her recurring character, a nun called Sister Agnieszka.
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Adam O. Davis

October 2020
Adam O. Davis discusses how we've come to use the language of the uncanny to describe the world we live in today.
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Beverley Bie Brahic

September 2020
Beverley Bie Brahic on how translating poetry inspires her own work, owning a secret shelf of erotic literature, and being a 'selfish translator'.
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John Burnside on W.S. Graham

July 2020
From a talk on W.S. Graham recorded in 2008, John Burnside discusses poetry and visual art, the poet as nomad and 'feeding the dead'.
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Volha Hapeyeva and Annie Rutherford

July 2020
Volha Hapeyeva and Annie Rutherford discuss the joys of translation, Britain's lamentable record on learning foreign languages, and whether now is the right time to be writing poems about the pandemic.
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Nancy Campbell

June 2020
Nancy Campbell is a writer of poetry, essays and non-fiction. She talks to Suzannah V. Evans at StAnza, Scotland's poetry festival.
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Christopher Whyte

May 2020
Christopher Whyte discusses how he came to learn Gaelic, why it is a language of resistance, and his relationships with several Scottish poetry greats.
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Ella Frears

April 2020
Ella Frears discusses sand, vintage erotica, and the interplay between her roles as a writer and visual artist.
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Juana Adcock and Tessa Berring

February 2020
The poets discuss violence against women in Mexico, writing long poems, and why language is like froth.
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