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
13 May 2024
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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,
7 July 2025
REVIEWING THE UNUSUAL
In this interview with CR Dudley she talks about her independent press Orchid’s Lantern, which specialises in crossovers between the arts and “… a range
5 April 2021
THE ART OF STAINED GLASS
I interviewed Tamsin Abbott who has been producing innovative stained glass for the last 20 years, as featured on BBC TV’s Countryfile and in Country
29 March 2021
VITAL XPOSURE – DISABILITY LEADS THE WAY, Part 2
In the second part of my interview with the disabled-led theatre company Vital Xposure I talked to the company’s founder, Julie McNamara and its new director
22 March 2021
VITAL XPOSURE – DISABILITY LEADS THE WAY – Part 1
Vital Xposure describe themselves as, “a disabled-led touring theatre company that promotes hidden voices with extraordinary stories to tell… All our work presents an inclusive experience
15 March 2021
CAITLIN DAVIES – AUTHOR AND CULTURAL ACTIVIST
I interviewed Caitlin Davies, author of several books about powerful women, as well as a teacher, social historian, and ambassador for the Thames Baths project.
8 March 2021
A VISIONARY’S SCULPTURES
Interview with visionary sculptor Clare Ferguson-Walker, who says about her work: “I find making sculptures incredibly hard work, requiring an enormous amount of patience, but
1 March 2021