Poetry in Aldeburgh
Poetry in Aldeburgh Weekend Round-Up
‘Magical’ is not a word I often use to describe an experience, but my first visit to Poetry in Aldeburgh was certainly that. The town’s location on a gorgeous shingly beach, the soft, early November light we were blessed with for most of the weekend, the cosy pubs we’d head to in the evening for…
Kostya Tsolákis
Poetry in Aldeburgh Round-Up
Friday Aldeburgh is a lovely seaside town lined with little shops, bakeries and cafés. As one of the poets, I was lucky enough to stay at Elizabeth Court, the artists’ accommodation, which was entirely booked for the festival. How often do you run into poets in the corridor or meet them while making breakfast in…
Danne Jobin
Danne Jobin Interviews Pascale Petit
Danne Jobin interviews Pascale Petit, winner of the 2018 RSL Ondaatje Prize and co-founder of the Poetry School, about rainforests, mothers and fathers, and trauma. Pascale Petit reads alongside co-founders Mimi Khalvati and Jane Duran at the celebratory event ‘21 Years of the Poetry School‘ at Poetry in Aldeburgh on Sunday 4th November. Danne Jobin: You…
Danne Jobin
Danne Jobin Interviews Richard Scott
Danne Jobin speaks with poet Richard Scott, author of Soho (Faber), about gay shame, the body, and openness. Danne Jobin and Richard Scott will read together at the Queer Studio event at Poetry in Aldeburgh on Saturday 3rd November, 17:30. Danne Jobin: David Halperin and Valerie Traub’s concept of gay shame has heavily influenced your work….
Danne Jobin
Kostya Tsolákis Interviews Chrissy Williams
Ahead of her reading at Poetry in Aldeburgh (2nd – 4th November, book here!), Kostya Tsolákis talks to poet, tutor and comics editor Chrissy Williams. Kostya Tsolákis: You’ll be taking part in a couple of events at Poetry in Aldeburgh this year, reading with Suzannah Evans, Matt Howard and Josephine Corcoran. You’ll also…
Kostya Tsolákis
Half-Ghazal (for Reneé)
“The word [Ghazal] is of Arabic origin and means ‘talking to women’ (women in purdah, with all that that implies)” – Mimi Khalvati in her Notes to The Meanest Flower I flinch inside as you corroborate my name, which is your name now. You spell it out over the phone to a call centre…
Edward Doegar
‘His Bottom Lip’
Clitoral, like finding a small, hidden part of myself in someone else. Nerve-wet, fleshy – for a white guy, and stained between life-lines with red wine gone black. Only this I point with sharpest teeth. He weighs this up. Eyes roll over what this means, how and where it can lead, all the things it limits. …
Rachel Long
Poetry in Aldeburgh: An Interview with Raymond Antrobus
Our new programmer Andrew Parkes caught up with poet Raymond Antrobus ahead his appearance at this year’s Poetry in Aldeburgh in one of a series of events curated by the Poetry School. Hi Ray, before we get into anything, I’d first like to extend hearty congratulations from all of us here for being awarded a Jerwood Compton…
Andrew Parkes (Poetry School)