
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

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 memoir, Free Association Press, 2019), and This Thing of Darkness, an experimental, illustrated book (IPBooks,

LINDA HILL – WHAT LIES BEHIND BOOK BLOGGING AND LOVING BOOKS?
I interviewed Linda Hill about the behind-the-scenes work that goes into her blog, Linda’s Book Bag – a review publication with a history of winning

THE DISSONANT FUTURES COLLECTIVE – SOUND INSTALLATIONS, CLIMATE DISCUSSIONS AND VIRTUAL REALITY WORKSHOPS
I interviewed Line Langebek, Emma Adams and Tarnia Mason about the Dissonant Futures Collective – a creative group of people who take climate grief as

NORA NADJARIAN AND THE UNHEARD, BETWEEN-CULTURES VOICES
I interviewed poet and short-story writer Nora Nadjarian, who writes about women, refugees, identity, exile, love and loss, as well as the political situation in

ANNABEL OSSEL – FROM PICTURE RESEARCHER TO MULTI-COLOURED, INNOVATIVE ARTIST
I interviewed abstract artist Annabel Ossel about how she creates her multi-coloured art in several different mediums and how her pieces link together. Annabel’s first

JOSEPHINE BALMER, HISTORY, AND THE POWER OF POETRY ‘TO GIVE BREATH TO THE SILENT VOICES’ Part Two
In Part Two of my interview with Josephine Balmer, she talks about how she writes her diverse and poetic books and why a deep, respectful

JOSEPHINE BALMER, HISTORY, AND THE POWER OF POETRY ‘TO GIVE BREATH TO THE SILENT VOICES’ Part One
I interviewed Dr Josephine Balmer, acclaimed translator of Sappho, Catullus, Ovid and historian-poet whose investigative work looks deep into hidden aspects of classical culture. Josephine’s