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Emily Dickinson: Success Is Counted Sweetest – Nikita Gill
Nikita Gill is a Belfast-born poet, writer and artist and has been described as ‘one of the most successful and exciting instapoets working today’. This interview was conducted on 3 October 2020 at King’s Place by Penny Hughes at Emily Dickinson: Success Is Counted Sweetest as part of Poet in the City’s “Fail Better” 2020 season.
Emily Dickinson: Success is Counted Sweetest – Erica Wagner
emilydickinson-2020-ericawagner.mp3 Erica Wagner was born in New York City and is a widely-acclaimed author and critic. She was literary editor of The Times for 17 years and is now contributing literary editor for Harper’s Bazaar, a contributing writer for the New Statesman, as well as writing for the Financial Times, the Economist and the New…
Emily Dickinson: Success is Counted Sweetest – Caroline Bird
emilydickinson-2020-carolinebird.mp3 Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her 2017 collection, In These Days of Prohibition, was shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot Prize and the Ted Hughes Award. Her sixth Carcanet collection, The Air Year, was published this spring. This interview was conducted by Penny Hughes as part of Poet in the City’s Emily Dickinson: Success is Counted Sweetest event…
What Is An Activist? – Khadijah Ibrahiim
khadijah-ibrahiim-audio-only.mp3 Khadijah Ibrahiim was born in Leeds of Jamaican parentage. Educated at the University of Leeds, she is a literary activist, theatre maker and published writer, who combines’ inter-disciplinary art forms to re-imagine poetry as performance theatre. Hailed as one of Yorkshire’s most prolific poets by the BBC, her work appears in university journals and poetry…
2020 | Amina Atiq | National Poetry Day | Sally Wood | What Is...? | Women
What Is An Activist? – Amina Atiq
amina-atiq-audio-only-1(1).mp3 Amina Atiq is a Yemeni-Scouse writer, performance artist & activist. Curious Mind Young Associate & BBC Words First Finalist 2019. Atiq’s work explores the conflict of her dual- identity of her heartland, Yemen and her homeland Liverpool. She is writing a one-woman poetry theatre play, revisiting her grandmother’s 1970’s Yemeni- British household. Currently a remote writer…
What is an Activist? – Joelle Taylor
joelle-taylor-audio-only.mp3 Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, author and educator who completed a world tour with her last collection Songs My Enemy Taught Me. She founded SLAMbassadors, the UK national youth poetry slam championships, as well as the international spoken-word project Borderlines. She is widely anthologised, the author of 3 collections of poetry and is currently completing her debut…
A Little Body Are Many Parts – Legna Rodriguez Iglesias and Seraphina Vick
Interview with Legna Rodriguez Iglesias and Seraphina Vick at A Little Body Are Many Parts event
Fail Better: Samuel Beckett – Natalie Abrahami
Interview with Natalie Abrahami
Samuel Beckett: Fail Better – Emilie Morin
Fail-Better-Samuel-Beckett-2020_(2)_-_Emilie_Moran.mp3 Emilie Morin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. She specialises in modern British and Irish literature, theatre history and forms of political writing. She has published widely in these fields including writing the books: Beckett’s Political Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Samuel Beckett…
Samuel Beckett: Fail Better – Joanna Walsh
Fail-Better-Samuel-Beckett-2020-Joanna-Walsh.mp3 Joanna Walsh is a writer, artist and editor. She is the author of seven books including the digital work seed-story.com. Her latest book, Break.up, was published by Semiotext(e) in 2018. She is a UK Arts Foundation Fellow, and a PhD candidate in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia, where she…
2020 | Fail Better | Melanie Roberts | Natalie Abrahami | Samuel Beckett | Theatre | Wilton's Music Hall
Samuel Beckett: Fail Better – Natalie Abrahami
Fail-Better-Samuel-Beckett-2020_(1).mp3 Natalie Abrahami was Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill from 2007-2012 and Associate Director at the Young Vic 2013-16. She has also been Associate Artist at the Nuffield Theatre and at Hull Truck. Recent theatre and opera include: Swive [Elizabeth] (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), ANNA (National Theatre), The Meeting (Chichester Festival Theatre), Machinal…
2019 | Deconstructing Empire | Ed Walker | Linton Wesley Stephens | Music | Poet In The City Producers | Politics | St Paul's Cathedral
Deconstructing Empire: The Great British Fantasy? – Linton Wesley Stephens
deconstructingempire-219-_lintonwesleystephens.mp3 Linton Wesley Stephens was born in Chester and grew up on the Wirral. He began playing the Bassoon at the age of 16. He is the sub-principal bassoon with Chineke! Orchestra with whom he has performed at the proms and Wigmore hall. He also enjoys varied freelance career. Recent appearances include BBC Philharmonic, Hallé…
2019 | Contemporary | Deconstructing Empire | Ed Walker | Poet In The City Producers | Politics | Sona Datta | St Paul's Cathedral
Deconstructing Empire: The Great British Fantasy? – Sona Datta
deconstructingempire-219-_sonadatta.mp3 Dr Sona Datta is a curator, writer, and broadcaster of South Asian art from Medieval to Modern. She is a 2019/20 Clore Leadership Fellow. This interview was conducted on 6th December 2019 at St Paul’s Cathedral by Ed Walker at Deconstructing Empire: The Great British Fantasy? as part of the Poet in the City Producers programme.
2019 | Anthony Anaxagorou | Contemporary | Deconstructing Empire | Ed Walker | Politics | Producers | St Paul's Cathedral
Deconstructing Empire: The Great British Fantasy? – Anthony Anaxagorou
deconstructing-empire-219-anthonyanaxagorou.mp3 Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Granta, Ambit, The Adroit Journal and The Rialto. His work has appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts. His second…
Oi Barman! In the City
Commissioned in collaboration with Culture Mile, Oi Barman! is a lovesong to bar life, to low pay and late nights; to our fellow champions in spirits, and brethren in tips.
2019 | Contemporary | Culture | Faber | Humanity | Kings Place | Northern Ireland | Politics | Seamus Heaney | Society
Vona Groake at Seamus Heaney: Blackbird
Tom Deveson interviews Vona Groarke at Poet in the City’s Seamus Heaney – Blackbird event
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