A podcast on the craft of writing, crafted and curated by Liam Bishop
Episodes
Friday Jun 16, 2023
Friday Jun 16, 2023
'I wanted to write a queer love story, Blackpool is crying out for literary renditions and I'm obsessed by Ulysses.'
Helen Palmer is here to talk about her Ulysses inspired queer love story, Pleasure Beach which is published by Prototype (more info here!)
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Rippling Points
- Corrie and the Tower: setting a novel in Blackpool.
- Time please: The enduring appeal of a novel set in a day
Reference Points
James Joyce
Julia Kristeva
Coronation Street
Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
Tuesday Jun 06, 2023
"There is a genuine search for something - much of the time it turns out to be distraction."
Duncan Wiese joins me from Denmark to discuss his new collection of poetry based on Virgil's Eclogues, Tityrus: A Pastoral. Published by Lolli Editions (more info here!), the poems were translated by Max Minden Ribeiro (Pelle Hvenegaard’s Dear Zoe Ukhona and Finn Juhl: Life, Work, World by Christian Bundegaarand) and Sam Riviere (81 Austerities, Kim Kardashian's Marriage)
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Rippling Points
Life in the twenties: Tityrus as an emblem of finding your way in life, sitting alongside pop culture.
Driven to distraction: how 'Rome's great poet's' ideas of the pastoral influenced a story of today.
Reference Points
Writers
Anne Carson
Virgil's Eclogues - You can read on Project Gutenberg for free here:
TV Shows
Beverly Hills 90210
Friends
That 70's Show.
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Wednesday May 10, 2023
"I was interested in stories with stories and how the family used folklore to approach conflict"
Soraya Palmer joins me from Brooklyn to discuss her debut novel, recently released in the UK, The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts, published by Serpent's Tail (more info here!).
We speak about hauntings, family narratives, and Anansi the animal trickster!
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Rippling Points:
Tales from the Caribbean: myth and folklore re-told in modern day Brooklyn
Life inside the multiverse: seeing different aspects of characters through time.
Reference Points
Writers
Toni Morrison
Film and TV
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Exorcist
Myths and Folklore
Anansi
Ol Higue
Rolling Calf
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
Thursday Apr 20, 2023
It's a Catalan Literature in Translation Special!
I'm delighted to welcome Mara Faye Lethem and Tiago Miller to discuss two recently released books from Catalonia
Irene Solà's When I Sing, Mountains Dance has has been re-released in paperback translated by Mara for Granta
Josep Maria Argemí's The Angel of Santa Sofia has been newly released and translated by Tiago for Fum d'Estampa
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Rippling Points:
Good and Evil: how the boundaries between what's right and wrong are blurred and might reflect debates about Catalonian history
The Catalan Language: Literature and it's role in keeping a language thriving
Reference Points:
Irene Solà's first novel Els dics (The Dams, L'Altra Editorial, 2018)
Jaume Cristòfol Pons Alorda
Jorge Luis Borges
Víctor Català
Jordi Cussa
Josep Palau i Fabre
Maria Mercè Marçal
Mercè Rodoreda
Marià Vayreda
Artists
Caravaggio
Salvador Dali
Mara's Essay in Lithub: https://lithub.com/author/marafayelethem/
Friday Mar 24, 2023
Friday Mar 24, 2023
"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
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Monday Oct 17, 2022
"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