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Between The Lines was founded in 1998 and publishes unusually wide-ranging and unusually deep-going interviews with some of today’s most accomplished poets. Some would deny that any useful purpose is served by putting to a writer questions which are not answered by his or her books. For them, what Yeats called ‘the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast’ is best left alone, not asked to interrupt its cornflakes, or to set aside its morning paper, while someone with a tape recorder inquires about its life, habits and attitudes. If BTL does not not share this view, it is not because we endorse Sainte-Beuve’s dictum, tel arbre, tel fruit – as the tree, so the fruit – but because we understand what Geoffrey Braithwaite was getting at when the author of Flaubert’s Parrot had him say: "But if you love a writer, if you depend upon the drip-feed of his intelligence, if you want to pursue him and find him – despite edicts to the contrary – then it’s impossible to know too much."
Seven American Poets by John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Anthony Hecht... An informative, entertaining, candid and occasionally surprising panopticon of a book.
The latest in York Libraries' series of storytelling events for adult audiences takes place at the end of this month. Lost in Translation! with Peter Chand and Shonaleigh will be the next event in the very successful Telling Tales series, on Saturday 31 January, 7.30 pm at York Central Library.
Shonaleigh and Peter Chand are two of Britain's most exciting and accomplished Storytellers. They have created an innovative performance piece based around stories they have collected from their respective Jewish and Indian backgrounds. Shonaleigh has previously performed in York at York St John University and at the York Literature Festival.
The fate of the kingdom lies in the hands of two men. Can Jakov and Pardesi put aside their differences and reach the magical city of Lutz- a place where men forget who they are? When two ancient cultures walk side by side, only one question remains: Are the healing properties of Chicken Soup really more effective than Lamb Biryani?
Tickets priced at £5 (including a glass of wine) are obtainable from York Central Library helpdesk, tel 01904 552815. Or visit: yorklibrary
Greta Stoddart's collection Salvation Jane (Anvil) has been shortlisted for the poetry category in the Costa Book Award. The judges said: "Honest, observant poems from a collection which is both wonderfully unsettling and deeply life-affirming."
At the heart of many of the poems in Salvation Jane lies an apprehension of things being lost or destroyed - whether a child or an illusion, faith or the very earth we live on. The world changes, too, when someone enters it. Greta Stoddart's poems of motherhood are intense double-edged celebrations; as grief has its consolations, so joy is rarely entire.
The winner of the £5,000 prize will be announced on Tuesday 6th January 2009.
Buy Salvation Jane online: here
The short list in full:
* For All We Know by Ciaran Carson (Gallery Press) * The Broken Word by Adam Foulds (Cape) * Sunday at the Skin Launderette by Kathryn Simmonds (Seren) * Salvation Jane by Greta Stoddart (Anvil Press)
The next Poetry in the Crypt is on Saturday January 31st at 7.30 p.m. featuring:
Brian Docherty Anna Robinson Hylda Sims Admission £4 (£3 concessions) Poets from the floor welcome Proceeds will support work with orphans and HIV positivewomen in Igatpuri, India
Poetry in the Crypt takes place in the Neighbourhood Centre which is a grey building beside St Mary’s Church on Upper Street, London N1, midway between Angel and Highbury & Islington tube stations. Buses 4, 19, 30 and 43.
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