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Five Minute Interview with Peter Sansom

Welcome to ournext Five Minute Interview, this time with the legendary Peter Sansom. Peter will be appearing alongside our special guest Stuart Maconie in a literary pub crawl, introducing audiences to a variety of new writing celebrating the British…

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Five Minute Interview with David Constantine

We are less than two weeks away from the start of the 2018 Kendal Poetry Festival and things are hotting up here at festival headquarters. Pauline is travelling around Kendal so fast she has turned into a blur, distributing brochures, …

Five Minute Interview with Claudine Toutoungi

Our third Five Minute Interview of 2018 is with the wonderful Claudine Toutongi, who will be reading on the 9th September at 11am, along with David Constantine. You can get a ticket for Claudine’s reading here. Claudine Toutoungi’s debut…

Five Minute Interview with Liz Berry

Welcome back to the return of Kendal Poetry Festival’s Five Minute With series. Our Young Blogger-in-Residence Hannah Hodgson interviewed the fantastic Liz Berry, who will be reading on the 9th September at 4.30-6.30pm with David Harsent. You can get…

Five Minute Interview with Wayne Holloway-Smith

Welcome back to the return of Kendal Poetry Festival’s Five Minute With series. Our Young Blogger-in-Residence Hannah Hodgson interviewed the fantastic Wayne Holloway-Smith, who will be reading on the 8th September at 11am with Dean Parkin. You can get…

Five Minutes With Malcolm from Iridium

This is our last ‘Five Minute Interview’ as we start to get too excited to do interviews, as the festival is only TWO DAYS AWAY! Hannah went to speak to Malcolm, the owner of Iridium, one of Kendal Poetry Festival’s…

Five Minutes with Wayleave Press

Hannah Hodgson has been busy interviewing Mike Barlow, the editor and publisher of Wayleave Press. Mike will be appearing at the festival to be interviewed by one of our Festival Directors, Kim Moore on Sunday 18th June at 10.30. Mike…

Five Minutes With Martin Kratz

Martin Kratz will be giving a whistle stop tour of some of our Festival Poets during his forty five minute session. He will be looking at the general themes that many of the poets explore in their work. If you…

Five Minutes with William Letford

Below is a quick five minute interview with William Letford. I met William about a year ago at a writing residential that Kim Moore was running. I first discovered his work through this, and have continued reading it…

Five Minutes With Linda Gregerson

HH: In one of my final five minute interviews, I talked to Linda Gregerson, an American poet. She is widely published with six collections of poetry and two of criticism. She has also won numerous prizes for her work, including…

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