The Loud Poets
November 2016
The Loud Poets reveal their 'origin story' and talk about making space for their brand of spoken word performances.Literary Europe Live: Juana Adcock and Árpád Kollár
November 2016
Europe special! Juana Adcock and Árpád Kollár about Hungarian punk music, Spanglish, and how to write multi-lingual poems.
Isobel Dixon
October 2016
Isobel Dixon about the universal and the particular, collaboration, and making space in a busy schedule to write.
Helen Mort
October 2016
Helen Mort talks about female pioneers of mountaineering and the strange health risks men believed running posed women.
Sarah Howe
September 2016
T.S. Eliot Prize-winner Sarah Howe talks about writing in multiple languages, sense and non-sense in poetry and much more.
Don Paterson and Krystelle Bamford
August 2016
The poets discuss translations, sonnets and what sort of a character makes for a good poem.Iain Morrison
August 2016
Iain Morrison talks about poetry and art, being able to write about sex and identity, and the influence of Emily Dickinson.
Claire Askew
August 2016
Claire Askew discusses privilege, the danger of appropriating the experience of others, and why she's so drawn to writing poems about her grandparents.Carrie Etter
July 2016
Carrie Etter discusses climate change, teaching poetry, trends in American and UK poetry and much more.
Harry Giles
July 2016
Harry Giles talks about politics, a messy take on the Scots language, and the time the Daily Mail called him 'vile'.Shara McCallum
June 2016
Jamaican-born, American-based poet Shara McCallum about her new Robert Burns poetry project which brought her to Scotland for a research visit.
Alan Riach
June 2016
Alan Riach discusses his translation of the eighteenth century Gaelic epic of the sea The Birlinn of Clanranald.