interviews
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I seem to be getting a good bit of practice at interviews, though not of the job kind. Yesterday, I welcomed Jules Lacave-Fontourcy and Mitchell Morton to my house to interview me and record a couple of poems as part of their work on a documentary about Camp Trans Scotland 2024. It was definitely happy
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I should have written this post about a fortnight ago, but in my defence I was really under the weather until last week. Anyway, I was interviewed on Radio Scotland’s “Sunday Morning with Tony Kearney” on 3 November. They got in touch after hearing about Quirk!, the group I’ve started for LGBTQ+ folk at the
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Isn’t technology astounding? Wednesday night’s inaugural Transatlantic Poetry on Air reading was a wonderful combination of the hi-tech and the intimate. It felt as if I was reading to Michelle Bitting and Robert Peake alone, and yet I was reading to people from both sides of the Atlantic and possibly even from all over the
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Thanks to Robert Peake, I’m in the Huff again. That is, his interview with me and Rob A Mackenzie is now available in the culture section of the Huffington Post’s UK edition. I am hugely grateful to Robert for taking the time to ask us some penetrating and stimulating questions. In other news, I’ll be
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Hidden Door has a new blog and I am honoured to feature as its second artist of the week, with an interview and a poem from The North End of the Possible. The blog is a space to watch, as there are exciting plans for a new HD festival afoot.
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Poet and fiction writer Emma Lee tagged me in this internet meme. I’m answering about The North End of the Possible, as it is certainly the next big thing in my writing life! Where did the idea come from for the book? As I think is common with many poetry collections, the idea grew out
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I mentioned previously that one of the pleasures of Greenbelt Festival was meeting people I’ve known online for a while but not met in the flesh before. One such person is journalist and science writer Suzanne Elvidge, who interviewed me for the Surefish website. You can read her piece here.
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