Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers

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Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers episodes

March 24, 2023Seraphina Madsen and Aurora
"I was fascinated by the idea of what is real and what isn't real what people perceive to be real and not real"

Welcome back to Series 4 of the Rippling Pages. And Seraphina Madsen is here to talk witches, the occult and different realities!

Aurora is Seraphina's second novel and is published by Dodo Ink

Read an extract here

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Rippling Points:
Witchhunts and witchcraft - a cultural phenomenon or do novels about it reveal something more pervasive about our culture?
Permission to read - knowing no boundaries and enjoying what you read. How Aurora and her friend's quest for new knowledge is something to be embraced
Reference Points:
Dee Brown - Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Carlos Castaneda
Joseph Campbell
Dion Fortune
Jack Kerouac - On the Road
Seraphina Madsen - Dodge and Burn

The Book of the Dead
30 min
October 17, 2022 Caitlin Stobie and THIN SLICES
"I don't think poetry should be giving a lesson to anyone"

Caitlin Stobie is here to talk about THIN SLICES, her new collection from Verve Press (Pre-order here )

Caitlin examines culture's need for 'origin' myths, as well as asking what is a language for the pre-lingual?

We recorded this episode in the run-up to Caitlin's appearance at Ilkley Literature Festival - more of which you can find out here: https://www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk/whats-on

And find out more about the University of Leeds Poetry Centre here - https://poetry.leeds.ac.uk/

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Rippling Points
Who needs origin myths? Lessons re-learned from Eve
Leave no trace: what we leave when we leave

Reference Points

Malcolm Gladwell - Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Eileen Myles - Chelsea Girls
Donald Winnicott

34 min
September 29, 2022 Cristina Bendek and Robin Myers - Salt Crystals
Both writer and translator of SALT CRYSTALS, Cristina Bendek and Robin Myers, are here to discuss this shape-shifting and history-searching novel. A book about a woman, Victoria, who explores her own and the island she's from, San Andrés's, history.

Find out more about the book here

Rippling Points:

A momentaneous piece or peace? How can we write about the transient, the changing, in a form which preaches endurability and timelessness?

Disease as a symptom: why Cristina chose to write about diabetes

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Reference Points:

Geoffrey Hill

42 min
August 25, 2022 Nicholas Royle and White Spines:
"It's a quest to try to collect all of the Picadors..."

Nicholas Royle is here to talk about White Spines: Confessions of a Book Collector, and his journey to find Picador books. You can buy the book here

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Rippling Points
The Second Life of Books: the second-hand bookshop as a home for new, undiscovered and forgotten writers

Got to Catch Them All: Is your favourite bookshop named?

Writers and Books

AJ Ashworth
Andrea Ashworth
The Lake John Foxx (Nightjar Press)
M. John Harrison
Anna Kavan - Ice (Picador: 1967)
Alberto Manguel (editor) Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature (Picador: 1983)
Livi Michael - The Lake (Nightjar Press)
Alison Moore
Nicholas Royle - First Novel (Vintage: 2013)
Nicholas Royle - Counterparts (Penguin: 1995)
Nicholas Royle - Ornithology (Confingo: 2017)
Nicholas Royle - An English Guide to Bird Watching (Myriad Editions: 2017)
Nicholas Royle - Uncanny (Manchester University Press: 2003)
Per Wahlöö - The Lorry (Picador: 1972)
Conrad Williams

Artists
Paul Delvaux
Salvador Dali

38 min
July 21, 2022Caroline Clark and Own Sweet Time
"All this wouldn't have happened without that experience of cancer..."

Caroline Clark is here with one of the most tender and moving books due to be released this year: Own Sweet Time.

Caroline's book is about the "hardest thing she's been through physically" and the "hardest things she's found mentally.

Find out more book here:

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Rippling Points
In the moment: how do we translate our most difficult moments?
By your side: verbatim writing
Reference Points:
Svetlana Alexievich - Chernobyl Prayer
Marit Kapla - Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village
Caroline's interview with Rowena MacDonald - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/sovietica-an-interview-with-caroline-clark/
Caroline's Previous Books
Saying Yes in Russian (2012: Agenda Editions)
Sovetica (2020: CB Editions)
33 min
June 16, 2022Sarah Schofield and Safely Gathered In
"As humans, we're really scared of forgetting..."

Welcome back for another episode of the Rippling Pages – I’m delighted to speaking to Sarah Schofield, author of the short story collection, SAFELY GATHERED IN (Comma Press - you can find here)

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Rippling Points:
Safely Gathered In? Containment as a literary, psychological and physical idea
Shopping lists and short stories: when fiction crosses over with the everyday.

Reference Points:
Elizabeth Baines
Roald Dahl
Tania Hershman
Adrian Henri
Mary Shelley
William Wordsworth
42 min
May 20, 2022Richard Price - the Owner of the Sea
"Song is very powerful...it's not a truth teller, it's a state-changer."

Richard Price joins today's show to discuss his collection of 'Three Inuit Stories Retold.' Published by Carcanet, the book was a Scotsman Book of the Year in 2021, and Richard joined me to discuss the challenges of retelling these tales.

You can buy the book here: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781800171176

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Rippling Points
Don't read it on Wikipedia: shedding light on expectations of roles
Travelling by song: the powerful nature of song.
Reference Points
Ron King, artist
Small World by Richard Price (2012: Carcanet)
Quentin Tarantino
42 min
April 21, 2022Erica Mou and Clarissa Botsford on THIRSTY SEA
"The first thing that came to me? A woman, alone with the sea, and in charge of her own destiny?"

Welcome back to the Rippling Pages and Series Three: Beneath the Surface.

We have Erica Mou and Clarissa Botsford here to discuss Thirsty Sea. Erica is a successful musician with six albums to her name. Her novel is translated by Clarissa and published by exciting new press, Héloïse Press, who are championing world-wide female talent.

You can buy the book here:
https://www.heloisepress.com/book/thirsty-sea

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Rippling Points
Sea change? How Erica sings and writes about the sea
Translating as a reader: How Clarissa read the book 'like a reader.'
Reference Points
Erica's podcast, Punti di Fuga
'Contro le Onde' by Erica Mou
37 min
October 14, 2021Emilio Fraia and Zoë Perry on Sevastopol
"It's nice to see my imagination dressed with my words...It's very interesting to see a universe in other words."

What a pleasure have both Emilio Fraia and Zoë Perry to discuss with me the writing and translating of Emilio's novel Sevastopol (Lolli Editions - buy here)

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Ripping Points:
A common tone: how the creation of a certain atmosphere leads to individual variations
How Sevastopol was translated into English
Reference Points
Péter Esterházy
Graham Greene
William Kennedy
Leo Tolstoy
Raymond Williams

Previous interview with Emilio and Zoë in Partisan Hotel
52 min
October 01, 2021Charlie Baylis and Santa Lucía
'You can't just have a greatest hits collection, there has to be a flow of ideas.'

Charlie Baylis, poet, critic, and editor joined me to talk about his latest collection, Santa Lucía, published by Invisible Hand Press - available here

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Rippling Points:
Day and Night: structuring around the rhythms of the day
The conscious art of repeating
Reference Points
Poets
John Ashbery
Sean Bonney
SJ Fowler
Selima Hill
Luke Kennard
Aaron Kent
Andrew McMillan
Chelsey Minnis
Frank O'Hara
Sophie Robinson
Matthew Welton

Charlie's interview with Andrew McMillan

Charlie's previous collections
Hilda Doolittle's Carl Jung t-shirt (erbacce press, 2018)
Swimming (Red Ceilings Press, 2019)

Novels
Albert Camus - The Stranger (1942)
Artists
Damien Hirst
Andy Warhol
42 min

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Liam Bishop having a coffee with the world's most interesting writers to inspire your reading and writing on the podcast where writers get real about writing.