Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry

Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry


Latest Episodes

Laynie Browne : Apprentice to a Breathing Hand
August 20, 2025

What does it mean to write toward or under the aura of another poet one admires, to write in homage, as a celebration of another? What happens to language when it hovers between two writers, between h

Martha Anne Toll : Duet for One
August 06, 2025

Todays guest is writer and critic Martha Anne Toll. Through a discussion of her latest novel Duet for One we explore the perennial mystery of writing and art-making, namely how to render something th

Rob Macaisa Colgate : Hardly Creatures & My Love is Water
July 19, 2025

Todays conversation with Rob Macaisa Colgate is about two books, his poetry collection Hardly Creatures and his verse drama My Love is Water.You could say these two books are approaching the same qu

Robert Macfarlane : Is a River Alive?
June 26, 2025

Dont miss todays conversation with Robert Macfarlane. A polyvocal deep dive into the mysteries of words and rivers, of speech acts as spells, whorls as worlds, of grammars of animacy, of what it mea

adrienne maree brown : Ancestors
June 09, 2025

With the arrival of Ancestors, the third and final book in adrienne maree browns Grievers Trilogy, we take the iconic frames she has created in her nonfiction workemergent strategy, pleasure activis

Madeleine Thien : The Book of Records
May 19, 2025

The Book of Records is many things: a book of historical fiction and speculative fiction, a meditation on time and on space-time, on storytelling and truth, on memory and the imagination, a book that

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson : Theory of Water
May 01, 2025

What would it mean for our writing, thinking, and living if we looked to land as pedagogy, or if we thought of theory as something embodied and kinetic? In Theory of Water Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Keetje Kuipers : Lonely Women Make Good Lovers
April 19, 2025

From the craft of writing sex in poetry to the virtues of failing publicly, todays conversation with poet Keetje Kuipers is not to be missed. We explore everything from storytelling within poems to t

Patrycja Humienik : We Contain Landscapes
April 05, 2025

What does it mean to risk rupture for rapture, on the page, and in ones life? Or for water to be ones method, mode or muse? Are inherited forms (of womanhood, of sexuality, of national identity) a g

Michelle de Kretser : Theory & Practice
March 09, 2025

Todays guest, one of Australias most celebrated and daring writers, Michelle de Kretser, discusses her latest uncategorizable book Theory & Practice(one she describes as 80% fiction, 15% essay and