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Authors of injustice

Authors of injustice

FromThe TLS Podcast


Authors of injustice

FromThe TLS Podcast

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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Oct 4, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

With Stig Abell and Thea Lenarduzzi – As a new anthology of stories brings the thrills-and-chills of genre writing to bear on the experiences of the "wrongfully convicted", the author and essayist Leslie Jamison discusses competing impulses in the writer–convict–reader relationship, why we need to talk about guilt rather than innocence, and her own correspondence with three prisoners; Federico García Lorca is well-known as a modernist, avant-garde poet and playwright, but what of his proficiency in haiku? And how does this Japanese tradition relate to the Spanish art of flamenco? We're joined by Paul Chambers, himself a haiku poet who has translated a number of Lorca's poems for the first time
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Released:
Oct 4, 2017
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