Ep.115 - Jane Yeh; Roy McFarlane (transcript available)
This episode is in two parts:\n\nPart one - David Turner is in London chatting to Jane Yeh about assuming personas and writing characters into her poetry, why fiction is such a common starting point for her poems and the influence that fine art, particularly 'old-master paintings' has on her creative practice.\n\nSome links relating to this section:\nhttps://www.janeyeh3.com/\nhttps://twitter.com/JaneYeh3\nhttps://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=838\nhttps://tornn.me/\n\nPart two (00:48:07) - David Turner is in Birmingham at this year's Verve Poetry Festival interviewing Roy McFarlane in front of a live audience. Roy explains how important it is for him to try and convey the sounds of his home city through his poetry and how, often, characters in his poems are a composite of many people.\n\nSome links for this section:\nhttp://www.roymcfarlane.com/\nhttps://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/the%20healing%20next%20time.html\n\nDownload a full transcript here:\nhttps://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/ep115-jane-yeh-roy-mcfarlane-transcript.pdf\n\nEpisode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here: \nhttps://snazzyrat.bandcamp.com/\nhttps://www.facebook.com/snazzyrat/