Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers

"It seemed to be a flashpoint moment, it was saying more than we thought it was saying."

Reference Points

Films

'All the way through the book, it should feel like there's going to be some kind of ending which will enable a potential future'

• Is this the end for me, you, all of us? What's it like writing about characters and limited horizons?

Reference Points:

• Sight, Jessie's first novel

We also discussed the Eyemouth Fishing Disaster, and the 1953 North Sea Flood which Jessie researched for the novel.

"The thing I learned last year is that the product is sometimes the problem"

Please be advised we recorded this conversation earlier this year and discuss issues of a sensitive nature with some instances of strong language

• Good guys and bad guys: a troubling distinction

Reference Points

Essays

'The south is a living breathing thing in this book. it's a personality.'

Really excited to have American poet, Khalisa Rae, join me for series two, episode two!

Khalisa is here to talk about Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat, published by Red Hen Press (buy here)

Rippling Points:

• Title collection: the story of a title

Reference Points

Writers

Welcome Back! Series Two: Horizons is here with Polly Barton.

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• Loving others and loving language: is there one without the other?

Reference Points:

Books

Theory

"The sense we don't have to trample on each other, to amplify each other, we can heal and nurture each other."

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• Voices of nurturing and healing: Jamaican women writers

Reference Points

We mention a lot of writers in this episode because the book is about writers. But it does cause us to reflect on some other names too

"I knew from the age of 13, 14, I needed to write poetry, I just didn't fully understand why."

• The power of the poet in different parts of the world: UK and Somalia

Reference Points

Poets

Don Paterson

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'[Poetry] is the beginning to accepting, the beginning to processing emotion.'

It's a Flipped Eye anniversary special as I'm joined buy two of their poets. First up - Katherine Lockton talking about Paper Doll.

Rippling Points:

• Like a Rubix cube: life and poetry

Reference Points

T.S Eliot

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"I was wrestling with what certain states of being feel like as negatives."

Neil talks candidly about his essay which reflects on his experiences of depression. Indeed, if you are affected by any 

Books:

Clair-Louise Bennett - Pond

Writers:

Francis Spufford

Essays:

Neil's Review of Francis Spufford's True Stories and Other Essays on Review 31

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