Ep.123 - Vanessa Onwuemezi (transcript available)

Published: Jan. 13, 2020, 11:34 p.m.

David Turner is in Walthamstow, east London talking to Vanessa Onwuemezi. The pair discuss how Vanessa came to be pursuing a life in writing and how she judges the quality of her writing.\n\nThis episode includes a short tribute to friend and poet Mishi 'Dulwich Hamlet' Morath who sadly passed away before Christmas.\n\nDownload a full transcript of this conversation here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/ep123-vanessa-onwuemezi-transcript.pdf\n\nFor more about Vanessa:\nhttps://twitter.com/onwuemezi\nhttp://www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/at-the-heart-of-things/\nhttp://mironline.org/swim-by-vanessa-onwuemezi/\n\nBuy my book Contained, \xa310 for the book, \xa34 for the PDF, here: https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/9771405-contained\n\nInfo about Contained book launches:\nLondon, 8th February - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contained-london-launch-tickets-87610614707\nCardiff, 15th February - Flute and Tankard Pub, free entry.\nBristol, 14th March -https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contained-bristol-launch-tickets-85104699447\n\nMore about Mishi Morath:\nhttps://soundcloud.com/lunar-poetry-podcasts/mishi-morath\nhttps://soundcloud.com/lunar-poetry-podcasts/national-poetry-day-2016\nhttps://soundcloud.com/lunar-poetry-podcasts/christmas-2015\nhttp://footballpoets.org/poets/dulwich-poet/\n\nFor more from us:\nlunarpoetrypodcasts.com/\nwww.facebook.com/LunarPoetryPodcasts/\ntwitter.com/Silent_Tongue\n\nOrder 'Why Poetry?': The Lunar Poetry Podcasts Anthology here: vervepoetrypress.com/product/why-poetry/\n\nEpisode music is an original composition by Snazzy Rat. You can find more from Snazzy here:\nsnazzyrat.bandcamp.com/\nwww.facebook.com/snazzyrat/