
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,

TELLING THE STORY BEHIND ANTIQUE TEXTILES
I interviewed embroiderer, book artist and printmaker Annwyn Dean about how she uses antique textiles, “… to draw the viewer into the piece to consider

A BANK THAT IS ETHICAL, SUSTAINABLE & TRANSPARENT
To find out about sustainable banking I talked to Neil Sellers, Head of Credit Risk at Triodos Bank UK. Neil offers his views on how

A SENSE OF PLACE IN ART
I interviewed mixed-media artist Debbie Lyddon who uses all her senses to create artworks informed by memory, close observation and the rhythms of nature. Other

EMMA PURSHOUSE – POETRY SLAMS & REMARKABLE LIVES
Performance poet Emma Purshouse, winner of poetry slams and the Rubery Book Award, is also a novelist and voice for the working class. Emma talked

SLOWSTITCH, TEXTILE SCULPTURES AND PAST LIVES
I interviewed Maria Walker whose stitched work and sculptures tell stories about working class people and the secrets of the human body. The materials she

IS HISTORICAL FICTION FACTUAL OR SPECULATIVE?
When I started Love’s Register, although the book covers 100 years of family relationships, it didn’t occur to me that I was writing a historical