To explore what this means for writers, publishers and consumers Samira is joined by Thea Lenarduzzi, commissioning editor at the Times Literary Supplement, and Kit Caless co-founder and editor at independent publisher Influx Press.Presenter: Samira Ahmed Studio producer: Hilary Dunn And today the floodgates were opened meaning the launch of an unprecedented 590 hardbacks, 28% up on last year. But lockdown saw many publishers freeze releases from March onwards.
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Now she has written a book, How to Grow Your Own Poem, which details the way that she uses existing poems and her students’ lived experience to teach – a method that she believes anyone can follow to write their own poem.The start of September would always be a busy time for new books, jostling for attention in the run up to the lucrative Christmas buying period. Some of her students are from migrant or refugee families and have brought with them rich poetic traditions some from home backgrounds that haven’t traditionally seen poetry as a world open to them.
We discuss the history of the office in culture and contemplate what comes next with writer Jonathan Lee and film and TV critic Hannah McGill.The Orwell Prize-winning writer and teacher Kate Clanchy has spent years with young people helping them to become poets. See /privacy for privacy and opt-out information.Īs major City firms and the likes of Facebook and Google allow their employees to work from home for the foreseeable future, does it herald the end of the office as we know it? And what does it mean for culture? From Working Girl to The Office, The Bell Jar to Joshua Ferris’s Then We Came To An End, the office has provided rich inspiration for the arts. She came to the UnHerd studio to discuss her experiences - of teaching, writing, and cancel culture - for the first time with Freddie Sayers.For more read The Post from UnHerd. They said they wanted to push back against suggestions that they “may be victims in some capacity.” They said Clanchy’s support gave them confidence as poets.The furore around Clanchy made headlines across the UK last summer.
They said their personal experiences of Clanchy were of “unequivocal care and support for us… as poets and as people”. Instead her students, who feature in her memoir, and in collections of their wiring like England Poem from A School, that Clanchy edited, supported her alone.Last September, at least 20 of them wrote an open letter to The Bookseller defending her.
Picador, her publisher until last week, did not come to her defence. Last summer her work came under sustained criticism for its purportedly insensitive depictions of her students. Her writing includes three prize-winning collections of poetry, the Costa First Novel Prize-shortlisted Meeting the English, and the Orwell Prize-winning memoir Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me. She has been a qualified and practicing teacher since she was 22. Freddie Sayers meets Kate Clanchy.Kate Clanchy is a writer, teacher, and editor.
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