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…
Melanie Roberts interviews Michael de Souza at Rastamouse Introduces Lil’Bruv, an event at Poet in the City’s 2018 Poetry and Lyrics Festival
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…
Poet in the City · Interviews with Dr. Devorah Baum at Poet in the City’s Sam Sax event Dr Devorah Baum is Associate Professor in English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Southampton. She is the author of two books, Feeling Jewish (Yale University Press) and The Jewish Joke (Profile), and co-director of the creative documentary feature film, The New…
Poet in the City · Dylan Read reading Les Aveugles by Baudelaire Dylan Read was born in Paris and grew-up in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. At university, Dylan performed and co-directed an extensive repertoire of theatre and performance projects. As a keen musician, he also scored a critically acclaimed version of The Caucasian…
Poet in the City · Interview with Polly Atkin at Poet in the City’s I wandered as Lonely as a Cloud event Polly Atkin lives in Grasmere. She has taught English Literature and Creative Writing at QMUL, Lancaster University, the University of Cumbria, and most recently at the University of Strathclyde. Her debut collection of poetry Basic…