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SuAndi: Growing up Nigerian-Irish in Manchester
Poet and performer SuAndi, OBE, is a third-generation member of the diaspora with a grandmother from Wicklow and a Nigerian father. She is the...
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Cherry Smyth - Bombs, Belfast and Blank Verse
A pleasure: a genuine pleasure and privilege to talk to the poet and author of “Famished”. In the usual freewheeling Plastic Podcast style we...
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Tony Murray: London Irish, Punk and Lockdown Walks
A truly marvellous chat with the charming and thoughtful Tony Murray. Director of the Irish Writers in London Summer School and curator of the...
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Niamh Lear: Human Geography, Rugby and Passport Paddies
After a week away we’re back in full flow with Niamh Lear, whose current PhD thesis at Newcastle University studies the curious phenomenon of...
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Jess Moriarty: Grandmothers, Witches, Writing and "God"
The full plastic of our interview with Jess Moriarty, writer and academic. We talk writing courses, grandmothers, Brexit, Covid, seeing her dad literally play...
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Craig Jordan-Baker: Maps of Fantasy Islands, Books of Brick and Mortar
Writer, lecturer and self-confessed folkie, Craig Jordan-Baker tells all on the eve of the launch of his debut novel, The Nacullians (published by Epoque...