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Scottish Poetry Library Podcast

Scottish Poetry Library

Podcasts from the Scottish Poetry Library, the world’s leading resource for poetry from Scotland and beyond.

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William Letford

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/17

Nicholas Lezard called William Letford ‘the new Scottish genius’, a judgement the SPL is not inclined to disagree with. With a new collection, Dirt (Carcanet), in the shops, we thought it was a good time to catch up with him. We discussed how India changed his life and poetry, whether he’s funnier in Scots, and the influence of work.

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52:47

Alice Notley

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/17

This podcast is a recording of the 2015 StAnza International Poetry Festival Round Table event in which SPL Programme Manager and poet Jennifer (JL) Williams was in conversation with the poet Alice Notley. It was recorded shortly before she won the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Alice Notley has published over thirty books of poetry, including (most recently) Songs and Stories of the Ghouls, Negativity’s Kiss, and the chapbook Secret ID. With her sons Anselm and Edmund Berrigan, she edited both The

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38:28

John Burnside on W.S. Graham

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

The SPL is pleased to be able to share a treasure from our audio archives: from 2008, a talk by poet and novelist John Burnside on fellow Scottish poet W.S. Graham. During the talk, recorded at the National Library of Scotland before an audience, Burnside talks about poetry and visual art, the poet as nomad and ‘feeding the dead’.

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31:11

Beverley Bie Brahic

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

Beverley Bie Brahic is a Canadian poet and translator who lives in Paris, France and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her poetry collection, White Sheets, was a finalist for the Forward Prize and a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her translations include Guillaume Apollinaire, Francis Ponge and Yves Bonnefoy. Suzannah V. Evans spoke with her at StAnza 2020, where she discussed how translating poetry inspires her own work, owning a secret shelf of erotic literature, and being a ‘selfish

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29:47

Nancy Campbell

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

Nancy Campbell is a poet and non-fiction writer who grew up in the Scottish Borders. A series of residencies with Arctic research institutions between 2010 and 2017 has resulted in many projects responding to environmental concerns including How To Say ‘I Love You’ In Greenlandic: An Arctic Alphabet (winner of the Birgit Skiöld Award 2015) and Disko Bay (shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2016 and the 2017 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize). Carol Ann Duffy describes Disko

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41:32

William Bonar

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

In this podcast Jennifer Williams interviews poet William Bonar about the publication of his most recent pamphlet, Offering (Red Squirrel Press, 2015). They also discuss the mythology of memory, Hugh MacDiarmid’s influence on Scots language poetry and a walk through the frozen cradle of Scotland. William Bonar was born in Greenock and grew up in the neighbouring shipbuilding town of Port Glasgow. He is a graduate of the universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde and he gained a distinction on the

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01:04:23

Sophie Collins

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

In this podcast, Jennifer Williams talks to Sophie Collins about experimenting with starting points for creating poems, including using online translators and working with the unconscious; feminism and her role as co-editor of tender, a journal celebrating writing by women and the wide-ranging world of poetry translation from radical to faithful; and much more! Sophie Collins is also editor of translation anthology Currently & Emotion (Test Centre, 2016). She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2014

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47:51

Shara McCallum

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

In this podcast Jennifer Williams speaks to Jamaican-born, American-based poet Shara McCallum about her new Robert Burns poetry project which brought her to Scotland for a research visit; the lyric self; female and minority voices in poetry and much more. Originally from Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of five books of poetry, the latest of which is Madwoman.

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41:15

Sarah Howe

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

In this podcast, the T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Sarah Howe talks to Jennifer Williams about kicking off the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival, writing with multiple languages and alphabets, sense and non-sense in poetry and much more. Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Her first book, Loop of Jade (Chatto & Windus, 2015), won the T.S. Eliot Prize and The Sunday Times / PFD Young Writer of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize and

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24:34

Nora Gomringer at StAnza

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

In this podcast, Jennifer Williams meets Nora Gomringer just after her Poetry Centre Stage reading at Scotland’s International Poetry Festival StAnza 2016. They talk about poetry on TV, how poetry can and should include a multiplicity of tones and registers, the joy of bringing poetry alive through the body and much more. Gomringer was born in 1980. Her background is in page-related poetry and spoken word, her present is the vast variety of poetry and recitation. This podcast was recorded in

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30:25

Linda Russo

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

In this podcast, Jennifer Williams speaks to American poet Linda Russo about the complexities of writing a poetry of place, the challenges and rewards of creating with empathy, and the question, ‘why aren’t we giving up hope?’. Linda Russo is the author of two books of poetry, Mirth (Chax Press) and Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way, and a collection of literary-geographical essays, To Think of her Writing Awash in Light, selected by John D’Agata as winner of the Subito Press lyric essay

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53:02

Literary Europe Live: Juana Adcock and Árpád Kollár

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

In this podcast Jennifer Williams speaks to our New Voices from Europe Literary Europe Live SPL Poets in Residence Juana Adcock and Árpád Kollár about writing poetry while listening to Hungarian punk music, the definition of Spanglish, how to write multi-lingual poems and much more. This project was made possible by Literary Europe Live, Literature Across Frontiers and the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

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46:09

Isobel Dixon

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

In this podcast Jennifer Williams talks to the poet Isobel Dixon about the universal and the particular, collaboration and making space in a busy schedule to write, how to bring in the personal in poetry and much more. Please note: unfortunately there is a buzz from a mobile signal through some short sections of this podcast. We hope it won’t detract from your enjoyment in listening. Many thanks. Isobel Dixon was born in South Africa. She studied in Edinburgh, and now lives in Cambridge and works

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48:22

Iain Morrison

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

In this podcast, Jennifer Williams speaks to Iain Morrison about poetry and art, being able to write about sex and identity, the influence of Emily Dickinson and much more. Iain has a frequently collaborative practice as a writer and performer, presenting within live literature and live art contexts. Recent projects have included a night of drag queen poetry at the Scottish Poetry Library in January 2016, and Subject Index a durational installation of the complete poems of Emily Dickinson developed

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16:49

Eleanor Wilner

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

In this goodbye podcast from Jennifer Williams, she shares her very first SPL interview, a previously unaired conversation with the American poet Eleanor Wilner. Jennifer first met Eleanor at the Scottish Poetry Library soon after she started, and Eleanor continues to be a friend and mentor for Jennifer in her life as a poet and person who believes that art can do good work in the world. With many thanks, always, to James Iremonger for the music in this podcast. If you would prefer to read, rather

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49:24

Carrie Etter

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

In this podcast Jennifer Williams talks to Carrie Etter about her newest collection, Scar (Shearsman 2016), a sequence exploring the impact of climate change on her home state of Illinois which speaks to problems faced by all of us as we enter this period of environmental catastrophe. Carrie Etter is an American poet resident in Bath since 2001. Previously she lived in Normal, Illinois (until age 19) and southern California (from age 19 to 32). They also discuss the importance of introducing

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32:37

Angela Cleland

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

With poems about the internet, the suburbs and boxing, Angela Cleland is a poet whose subject matter is pleasingly diverse. A resident of London now, she was born in Inverness in 1977 and grew up in Dingwall by the Cromarty Firth. Approachable but deeply accomplished, her poems are witty, smart and distinctive. When she visited the SPL, we had to grab her for a chat, not least because her second collection Room of Thieves (Salt, 2013) is a favourite of the staff. In our latest podcast, we talk to

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33:46

Vicki Husband

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

Vicki Husband is one of the most interesting Scottish poets to have emerged in the past year. 2016 saw the publication of her debut This Far Back Everything Shimmers (Vagabond Voices), which was shortlisted for the Saltire Society’s Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award, where she found herself shortlisted alongside Kathleen Jamie and Don Paterson. Her poems mix science and the everyday, finding the cosmic in the quotidian and vice versa. She talks to the SPL about using bees to diagnose illness,

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37:19

Vahni Capildeo

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

‘I write because I must,’ says Vahni Capildeo, winner of the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Collection for Measures of Expatriation (published by Carcanet). ‘I think poetry,’ she says, ‘is a natural expression of humanity that has not been brutalized – which is able to take time and concentrate.’ In this podcast, Capildeo discusses the impact studying Old Norse at university had on her poetry, how women’s voices are silenced, and why she objects to the word ‘migrant’.

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24:04

Tolu Agbelusi

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast ·

2022/08/12

Tolu Agbelusi is a Nigerian British, poet, playwright, performer, educator and lawyer. Her work ‘addresses the unperformed self, womanhood and the art of living’. For our latest podcast, Suzannah V. Evans interviewed Agbelusi at StAnza, Scotland’s poetry festival, earlier this year. Agbelusi talks about building communities and empowering people through literature; she is the founder of Home Sessions, a development program and community for Black poets under 30.

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