13. ‘An extended passport application’– the poetry of Michael Hofmann
“It’s almost as though my poetry is an extended passport application… It’s an attempt to be naturalized. I think I’ve failed to be naturalized and therefore there is this German residue about things....
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I have begun asking my interviewees to recommend a book which is a particular favourite of theirs. First up is Jan Zalasiewicz, who appeared in programme 34, “After We’ve Gone”, talking about his book,...
View ArticleBooks of the Decade – Elizabeth Speller
Whoosh! There goes the first decade of the no-longer-quite-so-new millennium. To mark the decade’s end, we’re launching a new series in which writers, editors and publishers are given the agonizing...
View ArticleBooks of the Decade – Andrew Kahn
Andrew Kahn is University Lecturer in Russian at the University of Oxford and Tutor and Fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He has degrees from Harvard and Oxford in Russian and Classics. His scholarly...
View ArticleBooks of the Decade – Luke Brown
Although we are now in a new decade, we haven’t yet reached Chinese new year. I am taking comfort from this fact, since I am still putting up Books of the (past) Decade choices. And of course the...
View ArticleDaljit Nagra on the ‘whoosh’ of poetry
An Interview with Daljit Nagra from FaberBooks on Vimeo.
View ArticleGraham Johnson on Schubert (I)
“Schubert had a response to words that is quite extraordinary. It’s the way that the interaction between words and music – which in a sense gives the song its own life – takes place that interests me....
View ArticleDavid Harsent on his T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection, Fire Songs
One of the most enjoyable interviews I recorded last year was with poet David Harsent. I’ve long been an admirer of David’s work; since I first encountered in the early 1990s, in fact, when David was...
View ArticleMeeting Matthew and Michael: the Faber Poetry Podcast
First time interviewing two poets at the same time; first time interviewing twins; first time interviewing identical twins; first time interviewing identical twin poets; first time interviewing two...
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