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
Richard Price - the Owner of the Sea
Erica Mou and Clarissa Botsford on THIRSTY SEA
Emilio Fraia and Zoë Perry on Sevastopol
Charlie Baylis and Santa Lucía
Jo Scott-Coe on MASS
Jessie Greengrass on the High House
Jeff Chon and Hashtag Good Guy with a Gun
Khalisa Rae and Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat
Polly Barton and Fifty Sounds
Jacqueline Bishop on Jamaican Women Writers
Samatar Elmi and A Portrait of Colossus
Katherine Lockton on Paper Doll - Flipped Eye Anniversary Part 1
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Neil Griffiths on TRAUMA: Writing About Art and Mental Health
Olja Knežević and Catherine the Great and the Small
Jen Calleja on Time and Goblins
Katharina Volckmer and The Appointment
Katherine Horrex and the Growlery
Gaia Holmes and 'RESIST'
Thomas Chadwick and 'Above the Fat'
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