
THE ART OF SLOW WRITING
Leslie Tate I’m a slow author. It took three years to write my latest book Ways To Be Equally Human. That’s an average of 40 words per day. So, if you were reading my book you’d have reached my daily

SARAH ROSS-THOMPSON AND THE ART OF COLLAGRAPHED PRINTS
I interviewed artist Sarah Ross-Thompson whose exceptional Collagraphed prints use fabrics, lichen, porridge and string to create images of the dramatic Scottish Highlands where she is based. Sarah has also exhibited at the Scottish Royal Academy and illustrated book covers

Part 2 MARK STATMAN: MEXICO AND THE POETRY OF GRIEF AND CELEBRATION
Part 2 of my interview with Mark Statman looks closely at Mark’s Latin American poetic influences, his life in Mexico and ends with an extract

MARK STATMAN: MEXICO AND THE POETRY OF GRIEF AND CELEBRATION Part 1
I interviewed international poet and translator Mark Statman about Volverse/Volver, his 14th published collection. Mark, who has won national arts awards, is Emeritus Professor of Literary

LISA DART – SURVIVAL POETRY AND THE VOICES OF EXPERIENCE
I interviewed Lisa Dart, finalist in the Grolier, Aesthetica and Troubadour Poetry Prizes and author of The Linguistics of Light (poems, Salt, 2008), Fathom (prose

JULIA LEE BARCLAY-MORTON – YOGA, WATER AND REWRITING AUTISM
I interviewed writer Julia Lee Barclay-Morton about her experience of autism. Julia began as an experimental dramatist in New York, moving to the UK to

GILLEAN McDOUGALL, WRITER, INVESTIGATING THE HISTORY OF GARTNAVEL ASYLUM & GLASGOW’S SURGICAL ARCHIVES!
I interviewed Gillean McDougall from Glasgow, who edited the collaborative projects Honest Error (on Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret Macdonald) and Writing the

DELPHINE DE VIGAN – HOW DOES A GIFTED NOVELIST WRITE?
I interviewed French writer Delphine de Vigan, whose book, No et moi, won the prestigious Prix des libraires. Other books of hers have won a clutch