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Interview | Between Anger and Prayer: Camille Ralphs in Conversation

Interviews

‘I think my overwhelming feeling writing that poem and reading it out now is one of ‘trappedness’. Anger at being trapped in the world, in a situation which makes no sense, with faculties that cannot make sense of it. The other question is why?’

Shoshana Kessler speaks to poet and editor, Camille Ralphs.

Interview | Forward Prize for Best Single Poem Performed: Leyla Josephine and Michael Pedersen

Interviews

‘Poetry is always trying to capture the experience of living a human life, which is an impossible task. Poets come close, but of course, always fail. Life is simply too complicated, too individual, too big. But the best poets, in my opinion, are the ones who manage to conjure feeling and keep mystery. And, of course, sprinkle in some humour to not take the whole thing too seriously.’

The third in our Forward Prize for Poetry interview series, Leyla Josephine and Michael Pederson.

Interview | Desire and Displacement in Sulaiman Addonia’s The Seers

Interviews

‘It made sense to me that the theme of sex centres itself in my books about refugees, because when people flee from wars, they often leave with few belongings and sometimes without their families. So, in exile, surrounded by loneliness and scarcity, their bodies become a focal point.’

Olivia Boyle talks to Sulaiman Addonia.

Interview | Ella Walker on Pasolini and punk

Interviews

‘I’ve always loved reading. One source of inspiration for me is Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, particularly ‘The Wife of Bath’ prologue. I loved her gruesome language and her humour. She’s a very powerful character.’

Katie Tobin speaks to Ella Walker.

Interview | Eline Arbo on staging Annie Ernaux’s The Years

Interviews

‘But still, it has this core of universality because it is written in the collective form. We can project our own lives into her stories because she allows us to do so. She invites us in with this ‘we’.’

Eline Arbo on staging The Years, at the Almeida Theatre from 27 July.

Interview | Andrea Khôra on RAPTURE by Eric Block

Interviews

‘I see the role of the artist to be nuanced. While exploring big ideas is one role an artist can take, I find myself hoping to create art that lets the complexity of situations exist within the work.’

Eric Block speaks to Andrea Khôra about her new film, RAPTURE.

Interview | An Interview with Megan McDowell 

Interviews

‘At the time that I was reading it and falling in love with it, I wasn’t thinking, “Oh, I want to be a translator.” But that book started my love affair with translated literature as a reader.’

Terry Craven talks to Megan McDowell, one of the judge’s for this year’s Desperate Literature Short Story Prize.

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