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Episodes
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.
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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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Thursday Apr 01, 2021
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
Wednesday Mar 31, 2021
"I was wrestling with what certain states of being feel like as negatives."
Novelist and publisher, Neil Griffiths, joined me to discuss his essay, 'Madness as Such', which is featured
in Trauma: Writing About Art and Mental Health (Dodo Ink).
Neil talks candidly about his essay which reflects on his experiences of depression. Indeed, if you are affected by any
of the themes discussed in today's episode, I've reserved this episode's Rippling Points for a couple of links to charities.
Reference Points:
Books:
Neil's Novels:
As a God Might Be (Dodo Ink)
Saving Caravaggio (Penguin)
Betrayal in Naples (Penguin)
Clair-Louise Bennett - Pond
Charles Dickens - Bleak House
Fyodor Doestoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
Mathias Énard - Zone
Eimear McBride - A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
Isobel Wohl - Cold New Climate - the inaugural novel of Neil's publishing company, Weatherglass Books
Writers:
Francis Spufford
Essays:
Neil's Review of Francis Spufford's True Stories and Other Essays on Review 31
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Friday Mar 19, 2021
Friday Mar 19, 2021
'Where there is conflict, there is always a path to literature...Freedom is an important topic for me.'
What a pleasure to talk to the Montenegrin writer, Olja Knežević about her trans-generational novel, Catherine the Great and the Small (Istros Books). The novel is translated by Paula Gordon and Ellen Elias-Bursać
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Rippling Points:
- Lessons from writing in and about a civil war
- Why don't we write about grandmothers more?
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Reference Points
Writers
- Rachel Cusk
- Sheila Heti
- Karl Ove Knausgaard
- Olja's first novel - Milena and Other Social Reforms
Ideal lockdown literary listening.
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Friday Mar 05, 2021
Friday Mar 05, 2021
'I want the story the story to be as disorientating for the reader as it is for me...I'm not trying to offer an answer or a safe and complete world...'
The incredibly talented Jen Calleja joins the RP Pod to talk about her short story collection, I'm Afraid That's All We've Got Time For (Prototype Publishing), and Goblins (Rough Trade Books), a personal exploration of 'goblinery.'
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Rippling Points:
- That's all we've got time for: setting 'temporal parameters' for writing a story
- Is it really the way it is? Working with and against lessons learned in youth
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Buy GOBLINS here
Reference Points
Books and Writers
- Jen Calleja's poetry collection, SERIOUS JUSTICE
- Interview with the writer Megan Nolan
- The Complete Short Stories of Leonora Carrington
Films
Artists
Ideal lockdown literary listening.
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