
THE ART OF SLOW WRITING
Leslie Tate I’m a slow author. It took three years to write my latest book Ways To Be Equally Human. That’s an average of 40 words per day. So, if you were reading my book you’d have reached my daily

Part 2 MARK STATMAN: MEXICO AND THE POETRY OF GRIEF AND CELEBRATION
Part 2 of my interview with Mark Statman looks closely at Mark’s Latin American poetic influences, his life in Mexico and ends with an extract from Volverse/Volver, his most recent published collection. Mark, who has won national arts awards, is Emeritus

MARK STATMAN: MEXICO AND THE POETRY OF GRIEF AND CELEBRATION Part 1
I interviewed international poet and translator Mark Statman about Volverse/Volver, his 14th published collection. Mark, who has won national arts awards, is Emeritus Professor of Literary

LISA DART – SURVIVAL POETRY AND THE VOICES OF EXPERIENCE
I interviewed Lisa Dart, finalist in the Grolier, Aesthetica and Troubadour Poetry Prizes and author of The Linguistics of Light (poems, Salt, 2008), Fathom (prose

JULIA LEE BARCLAY-MORTON – YOGA, WATER AND REWRITING AUTISM
I interviewed writer Julia Lee Barclay-Morton about her experience of autism. Julia began as an experimental dramatist in New York, moving to the UK to

GILLEAN McDOUGALL, WRITER, INVESTIGATING THE HISTORY OF GARTNAVEL ASYLUM & GLASGOW’S SURGICAL ARCHIVES!
I interviewed Gillean McDougall from Glasgow, who edited the collaborative projects Honest Error (on Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret Macdonald) and Writing the

DELPHINE DE VIGAN – HOW DOES A GIFTED NOVELIST WRITE?
I interviewed French writer Delphine de Vigan, whose book, No et moi, won the prestigious Prix des libraires. Other books of hers have won a clutch

JOANNE LIMBURG AND THE AUTISTIC ALICE
I interviewed Joanne Limburg whose poetry collection Feminismo was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; another collection, Paraphernalia, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Joanne