In Conversation
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Making sense of an often-meaningless world
Bruno Cooke talks to Darby Hudson, the bearded Australian poet in the cuddly jumper
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In Conversation with Ryan Van Winkle
We talk to Ryan Van Winkle, the new Artistic Director for StAnza
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Letters on the Centenary of Harmonium
Paul Stephenson and Lisa Kelly exchange letters on the poetry of Wallace Stevens
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The cutty’s goistering
The Friday Poem talks to poet and gardener Jackie Wills
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Unicorn flavour
We talk to Aaron Kent, poet, editor, and publisher of Broken Sleep Books
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Poetry and Everyday Sexism
We talk to Kim Moore about everyday sexism, her recent Forward prize-winning poetry collection All the Men I Never Married, and her new collection of lyric essays Are You Judging Me Yet?
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The difficult visiting times
Philip Gross discusses writing poetry about his family in The Wasting Game and Deep Field, the importance of self-knowledge, and what makes a 'good' poem
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We have to find the right authors and the right commercial strategy to recover. It may take us five years
The Frip talks to Chris Hamilton-Emery, poet and director of Salt Publishing, about the new Salt Modern Poets list, building readerships, and writing every day "without hope and without despair"
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Vivat Mariscat
The Friday Poem talks to Hamish Whyte of Mariscat Press about current Scottish Galvanisers, the timidity of contemporary review culture, and to blurb or not to blurb
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We punch above our weight and compete with the big five
The Friday Poem talks to Zoë Brigley and Rhian Edwards, the new Poetry Editors at Seren Books
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Gathering flowers
In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to Kathryn Gray and Andrew Neilson, founders and editors of digital poetry journal Bad Lilies