Interview with electric cellist Jo-anne Cox about her neurodivergent composition Defiant Journey blending music, activism and storytelling – a piece that transcends “the damming label

In part two of my in-depth interview with international poet and translator Mark Statman I asked about his working methods, his poetry, and the culture

Books benefit from attractive starters, layered and varied main courses and piquant endings . But although good ingredients help, it’s the treatment that matters. Usually

Part one of an in-depth interview with international poet and translator Mark Statman whose recent volume Exile Home is his 10th published collection. Mark, who 

Leslie Tate asks Where’s the ‘Me’ in my Novels? On the face of it, everything I write is semi-autobiographical. Even if it’s third-person I can

I interviewed Peter Salmon, whose first novel, The Coffee Story, was  a New Statesman Book of the Year. Peter talked to me about his recent biography