João Luis Barretto Guimarães & Calvin Olsen: Movimento

Host Joe Williams talks to esteemed Portuguese poet João Luis Barreto Guimarães and translator Calvin Olsen, focusing on João's 2020 collection, Movimento, a poetry collection which follows a dialectical process and is currently being translated by Calvin.

Philip Roughton - Icelandic translator

Host Joe Williams speaks with Icelandic translator Phillip Roughton about his life's work translating such giants of Icelandic literature as Halldór Laxness and Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir, and he shares his insights into the themes and forms which feature in Icelandic literature. Salka Valka, a mo…

Nora Nadjarian - Armenian-Cypriot poet

Cypriot poet of Armenian heritage Nora Nadjarian speaks with host Bailee Wolfe all about her fascinating perspective as a writer between cultures, and she shares examples of her exquisite poetry and short fiction. You can learn more about Nora from her website,www.noranadjarian.com.

Carmen Martínez Pineda: Children of Sin

Host Joe Williams speaks with Carmen Martínez Pineda, a Spanish author whose recent novel Children of Sin (Hijos del Pecado, Raspa Books) makes use of a radically non-linear structure to show how aspects of the human experience remain constant over time, regardless of the semblance of societal prog…

Richard Dixon: on translating Antonio Moresco's Clandestinity

Host Joe Williams speaks with translator Richard Dixon about Italian author Antonio Moresco, whose work combines elements of the fantastic and the grotesque with meticulous description to explore his characters' subconscious process and sexual impulses. The interview focuses on the novel Clandestin…

Gaetano Savatteri: A Conspiracy of Talkers

Host Joe Williams interviews Italian journalist and author Gaetano Savatteri and translator Steve Eaton about Gaetano's novel, A Conspiracy of Talkers, available now from Italica Press. This novella exploits the conventions of the crime thriller genre to offer a cross-section of Sicilian society an…

Colm Tóibín: Vinegar Hill

Host Joe Williams speaks with legendary Irish novelist Colm Tóibín about his debut poetry collection, Vinegar Hill, decades in the making. They also discuss Colm's life in literature, and how his novels The Master and The Magician aim to recreate the psychology of seminal 20th authors. Vinegar Hill…

Péter Molnár - slam champion

Hungarian and European slam champion, director of the Underground Slam Academy in Budapest, Péter Molnárspeaks with host Bob Holman (founder and head of Manhattan’s famed Bowery Poetry Club) all about the slam movement and Péter’srole in its development in Hungary. This episode includes a three-par…

Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir - Icelandic poet

Icelandic poet and historian Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir has published four books of poetry, of which the latest, Hetjusögur has been awarded the Icelandic Women´s Prize for Fiction. She has also written books and articles on cultural history and the history of sexuality, women and gender in Iceland.…

Selim Özdoğan: 52 Factory Lane

German author Selim Özdoğan and translators Ayça Türkoğlu and Katy Derbyshire speak with host Yana Ellis about the novel, 52 Factory Lane – the second book in the Anatolian Blues trilogy.