Rippling Pages: Interviews with Writers
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"Wounds, whilst they open us to the world...they can be points of infection."
Welcome to 2024 and a new episode of the Rippling Pages. Rachel Mann is a poet, scholar, novelist and Anglican priest. She is Rachel Mann is here to talk about her new collection, Eleanor Among the Saints (Carcanet), which takes inspiration from the life of Eleanor 'John' Rykener. A trans woman, seamstress, embroider, and sex worker who lived in medieval England.
More info about the book here
This is Rachel's second collection after Kingdom of Love (also Carcanet - and which I reviewed here!)
The book is a Poetry Book Society recommendation and you kind find tickets to her launch here.
Tickets to the Carcanet launch of the book here: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/events?showpage=913
This show comes with a content warning - we do talk about some sensitive topics, such as domestic violence, so please do take care of yourself when listening.
Rippling Points
5.05 - Poetry and embroidery
8.03 - What Eleanor's story, and Rachel's poetry, tells us about embodiedness
11.45 - Society and Eleanor's story
14.54 - How details about Eleanor's life helped in writing the collection.
18.30 - 'Violence' in craft and the writing process.
21.45 - How themes of violence and the body converge in Rachel's poems.
28.20 - 'Fear' of working with heavy and sensitive topics
Reference Points
Gilles Deleuze
Umberto Eco
Marchelle Farrell and By the River
Marianne Brooker and Intervals
Dawn Garisch and Breaking Milk
Jo Scott-Coe on the Life and Death of Kathy Leissner Whitman
Charlotte Eichler and Swimming Between Islands
Baron Wormser on Silence, Solitude and Shakespeare
Leslie Smolan and the Life and Work of Rodney Smith
Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Azúcar
James Clarke and Sanderson’s Isle
Bloomsday special with Helen Palmer!
Duncan Wiese and TITYRUS: A PASTORAL
Soraya Palmer and The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
Catalan Literature in Translation Special!
Seraphina Madsen and Aurora
Caitlin Stobie and THIN SLICES
Cristina Bendek and Robin Myers - Salt Crystals
Nicholas Royle and White Spines:
Caroline Clark and Own Sweet Time
Sarah Schofield and Safely Gathered In
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