Archive > August 2009

Darwin and Dickinson on Radio

I’ve just done a radio interview with Maggie Ball. Go to this link at Compulsive Reader.com to hear it. I read a couple of poems as well: ‘The Donkey, August, 1817′ and ‘Handel, January 1836′. 
There’s also an upcoming ABC radio program (ABC’s The Book Show) recorded during the Melbourne Writers’ Festival of a session I participated in [...]

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Wallace to her Darwin

I wanted to see Ruth Padel speak at Edinburgh Writers’ Fest, but sadly parental commitments prohibited me at the last minute. I have been both curious and a bit tentative about meeting her, though I sent her an email proposing we should and she responded very sweetly to me. Two women poets with essentially the [...]

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Edinburgh Festival in The List

Here’s a link to my event in The List magazine. I’m reading with Jen Hadfield, the T.S. Eliot poetry prizewinner featured here. Full details of our event are also listed below if you scroll down to August 17th, 4:30.

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A Darwinian Dialogue

I haven’t blogged in quite some time, since my days at Loch Long, collecting old pottery from the beach. Since then, a couple of readings, most recently at the lovely Cambridge Libraries Garden Party under Milton’s tree at Christ’s College. A gorgeous evening and I got to meet a lot of keen librarians, my favorite [...]

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