Liam Bishop curating the best writers to help you with your writing
Episodes
Friday Aug 20, 2021
Friday Aug 20, 2021
"The thing I learned last year is that the product is sometimes the problem"
Jeff Chon joins me to discuss his novel, Hashtag Good Guy with a Gun, published by the exciting Sagging Meniscus press (buy here)
Please be advised we recorded this conversation earlier this year and discuss issues of a sensitive nature with some instances of strong language
Rippling Pages:
- Good guys and bad guys: a troubling distinction
- What's it like writing about people we really do not like?
Reference Points
Books
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Films
Death wish (1974: Michael Winner; 2018 remake starring Bruce Willis and directed by Eli Roth
Falling Down (1993: Joel Schumacher)
Fight Club (1999: David Fincher)
Taxi Driver (1976: Martin Scorsese)
Superheroes
Superman
Essays
Alex Diggins on Hashtag Good Guy with a Gun for 3:AM Magazine
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
Thursday Aug 05, 2021
'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)
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Rippling Points:
- Title collection: the story of a title
- Surrounded by the best: environments of poetic creativity and support
Reference Points
Writers
Maya Angelou
Dasan Ahanu
James Baldwin
Gwendolyn Brooks
Jericho Brown
Camonghne Felix
Nikky Finney
Siarra Freeman
Ada Limón
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker
Interview between Khalisa and the writer/photographer Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Wednesday Jul 21, 2021
Welcome Back! Series Two: Horizons is here with Polly Barton.
"I wanted to give people tools they could then forget about for the rest of the book."
Polly Barton is here to talk about Fifty Sounds, winner of the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize 2019. (BUY HERE!)
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Rippling Points:
- Loving others and loving language: is there one without the other?
- Wittgenstein: even he got it wrong at times
Reference Points:
Books
Ray Monk - Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
Theory
John Bowlby's Theory of Attachment
Friday May 14, 2021
Friday May 14, 2021
"The sense we don't have to trample on each other, to amplify each other, we can heal and nurture each other."
Jacqueline Bishop is here to talk about her collection of interviews, The Gift of Music and Song: Interviews with Jamaican Women Writers
(Buy here!)
It's a perfect way to conclude the 'Finding Room' series - promoting the voices of some fantastic Jamaican women writers.
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Rippling Points:
- Voices of nurturing and healing: Jamaican women writers
- Changing conceptions of society, but preserving these 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
Monique Roffey - (Monique selected Jacqueline's book as a cultural highlight in the Guardian)
Jane Austen
Jean Rhys
Kamau Braithwaite
George Lamming
Derek Walcott
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
"I knew from the age of 13, 14, I needed to write poetry, I just didn't fully understand why."
It's part two of our Flipped Eye 20th birthday special, and I'm joined by Samatar Elmi talking about his debut collection, Portrait of Colossus.
Thank you Katherine and Samatar for joining me. Two exciting, upcoming poets.
Buy Portrait of Colossus here.
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Rippling Points:
- The power of the poet in different parts of the world: UK and Somalia
- 100 drafts: writing about the ones we love
Reference Points
Poets
Don Paterson
Jason Allen-Paisant - subcribe to the PN Review to read his essay in PN Review 257 Thinking with Trees, Allen-Paisant's debut collection, is out in June.
Musicians
Bob Dylan.
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Friday Apr 16, 2021
Friday Apr 16, 2021
'[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.
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Rippling Points:
- Like a Rubix cube: life and poetry
- Notes from a childhood in Bolivia.
Reference Points
T.S Eliot
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