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

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Laynie Browne : Apprentice to a Breathing Hand
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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