Lara Feigel and Juliet Gardiner discuss writing of the Blitz
Reni Eddo-Lodge, Bernardine Evaristo and Heidi Safia Mirza discuss how the intersection of race, feminism and class has evolved since the 1980s.
The short story: a new future?
The writer and broadcaster Nicolette Jones talks to bestselling children’s author Michael Morpurgo.
Travelling Across Genres (William Dalrymple & Colin Thubron)
The writer and broadcaster Nicolette Jones talks to bestselling children’s author Michael Morpurgo.
John Burnside: capturing moments of wonder
The joys and pitfalls of the fictional follow-up.
Jonathan Keates on poetry and song
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy reads at our Annual T.S. Eliot Memorial alongside two of her Laureate Choices: Keith Hutson and Mark Pajak. Plus a reading from Young People’s Laureate Caleb Femi.
Maggie Fergusson remembers Ronald Harwood
Colm Tóbín is elected a Vice-President for the RSL.
Skinning the lion (A dialogue between Derek Walcott and Ben Okri)
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Ted Chiang book club Temi Oh: ‘The Lifecycle of Software Objects’
April De Angelis is elected a Fellow of the RSL.
Scottish BAME Writers Network
In early 2019, the Scottish BAME Writers Network partnered with the Scottish Poetry Library to offer writers of colour a space where they could develop their craft as a community. The pamphlet ‘Ceremony’ is the result. It is a collaboration between fifteen authors, and lives at the intersection of multiple traditions, landscapes, and languages. From […]
Interview with Matt Bryden
Matt Bryden is one of the six recipients of the RSL’s Literature Matters Awards 2018. He discusses his time in residence at Bristol Temple Meads train station’s Lost Property Office, with RSL Director Molly Rosenberg, which he is using to inspire him to write a new collection of poetry. Recipient of 2018 RSL Literature Matters […]
Interview with Pascale Petit
We’ve asked for a picture of what you see from your writing desk – what does your typical writing day look like? Thanks to my Literature Matters Award I’ve had two whole delicious uninterrupted writing months so far, and one more to come in December. My favourite routine is to wake up really early and […]
Originality in science and the arts
Sabrina Mahfouz reads her commissioned poem ‘Peace < Water' - commemorating 100 years since the death of Wilfred Owen.