Emily Dickinson: Success is Counted Sweetest – Caroline Bird
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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…

Emily Dickinson: Success Is Counted Sweetest – Nikita Gill
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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
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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…

What Is An Activist? – Khadijah Ibrahiim
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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…

What Is An Activist? – Amina Atiq
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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
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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…

Samuel Beckett: Fail Better – Emilie Morin
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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
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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…

Samuel Beckett: Fail Better – Natalie Abrahami
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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…