This Writing Life
Episodes
Saturday Mar 28, 2020
Graeme Macrae Burnet reads from ’The Dark Thread’ (These Our Monsters)
Saturday Mar 28, 2020
Saturday Mar 28, 2020
Last year I was asked to write an introduction for a collection of modern folktales to be published by English Heritage.
Saturday Dec 21, 2019
A Conversation with Simon Barnes - Part 2
Saturday Dec 21, 2019
Saturday Dec 21, 2019
Part two of our conversation with Simon Barnes, the award-winning sportswriter, revered birdlover and Chair of 2020's Keats-Shelley Prizes.
Saturday Dec 14, 2019
A Conversation with Simon Barnes - Part 1
Saturday Dec 14, 2019
Saturday Dec 14, 2019
In this first of two episodes, I talk to Simon Barnes, the award-winning sportswriter, revered birdlover and Chair of 2020's Keats-Shelley Prizes.
Our annual theme is 'Songbirds', to mark the composition 200 years ago of PB Shelley’s To a Skylark and the publication in book form of John Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale, which made Simon the perfect choice as Chair.
We talked, among other things, about his own changing relationship with nature, how he fell in love with birds and birding, what birding means in the 21st century and its relationship with writing in general, and Romantic poetry in particular. We even address the question of John Keats' wonky nightingale.
Saturday Dec 14, 2019
Simon Barnes reads from The Meaning of Birds
Saturday Dec 14, 2019
Saturday Dec 14, 2019
Simon Barnes is unique in the world of literature. How many revered sports writers are also revered nature writers too? Off the top of my head I can think of one: Simon Barnes himself.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2016
About
Wednesday Dec 21, 2016
Wednesday Dec 21, 2016
This Writing Life is a bookish podcast featuring rambling conversations with writers about writing.
About James Kidd
James Kidd is a freelance writer based in Oxford. His journalism has appeared in The Independent and Independent on Sunday, Literary Review, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, Esquire Weekly, Time Out, South China Morning Post, and The Jerusalem Post among others. As well as hosting This Writing Life, he co-hosts Lit Bits with Adam Smyth and runs The Keats-Shelley Podcast.
Twitter: @ajskiddEmail: [email protected]