News from Authors

Opal Palmer Adisa has interviewed Shara McCallum on Opal's website. Speaking about the inspiration behind her latest book, No Ruined Stone, Shara says:

Amanda Smyth's latest novel Fortune has been selected for Book of the Month lists by both LoveReading and the Republic of Consciousness.

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Please Send Me Flowers

(Thinking about "Fuck your Lecture on Craft, My People are Dying" by Noor Hindi)

by Jennifer Rahim

What if, today, I write this line,

The Bookseller features a wonderful interview with Peepal Tree poet Marvin Thompson. The interview is available in print and online now.

Born in New Amsterdam, in what was then British Guiana, on 24 March, 1921, Wilson Harris is considered one of the most original writers of the twentieth century, for his fiction, essays, and poems exploring human history, metaphysics, and the natural world, in an inimitable style dense with metaphor, symbolism, and mythological reference.

Acalabash has published the second part of its interview with St Lucian poet John Robert Lee.

John speaks about his dedications, his inspirations and his advice for young poets:

Monique Roffey has penned an article, 'Top 10 books about mermaids', for The Guardian. You can read it online now.

Monique writes:

Nii Ayikwei Parkes' latest collection of poems, The Geez, has made the Poetry Book Society Winter 2020 Recommendations list. The book received a wonderful review by Andrew McMillan and Nii himself wrote a short essay for the magazine, along with his poetry recommendations. In the essay, Nii talks about the origins of his book:

Over at the Spread the Word website, Leone Ross has written A Pocket Guide to Writing (Good) Sex!

With the Booker shortlist featuring books which deal with trauma, BBC Radio's Front Row explores the issues for writers in writing about trauma in both fiction and non fiction with writers Meg Rosoff and Monique Roffey, and the critic Suzi Feay. Monique talks about writing on trauma with Dodo Ink for their upcoming anthology, TRAUMA: Art as a response to mental health.