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We’re a podcast for anyone who writes. Every week we talk to writers about their writing journeys and techniques, from early career debuts to self-publishers and narrative designers. We’ve featured Margaret Atwood, Jackie Kay, Sara Collins, Antti Tuomainen, Val McDermid, Sarah Perry, Elif Shafak and many more! The Writing Life is produced by the National Centre for Writing at Dragon Hall in Norwich.
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Friday Feb 19, 2016
Friday Feb 19, 2016
An evening of bilingual poetry in celebration of the launch of 'Lost Evenings Lost Lives', an anthology of Tamil poetry edited and translated by Lakshmi Holmström and Sascha Ebeling, and winner of a PEN Translates Award from English PEN.
Friday Feb 12, 2016
Friday Feb 12, 2016
R.F. Langley (1938–2011) has been described as ‘one of the secret treasures of modern poetry’. The poetry magazine PN Review was one of Langley’s earliest champions, publishing both his verse and the extraordinary prose of his journals. Listen to an evening of readings by writers who admired his work, organised by WCN and the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at UEA: - Jeremy Noel-Tod: Introduction & ‘You With Your Visions and Dreams’ - R.F. Langley: Reading of ‘Poor Moth’ at UEA, February 2005 - Julia Blackburn: Letter from RFL and ‘Still Life with Wineglass’ - Peter Hughes: ‘Cook Ting’ (RFL) and ‘Cook Ting’ (Chuang Tzu, trans. Burton Watson) - Ruth Langley: ‘The Upshot’ - Fern Richards: Westhall church journal entry, August 1994 - Interval and Drinks - Eric Langley: ‘Mariana’ - J.H. Prynne: ‘Man Jack’ - Matthew Welton: ‘Depending on the Weather’ - Helen Macdonald: Benacre Broad journal entry, January 2005 - Peter Gizzi: ‘To a Nightingale’