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We discuss 'The Allotment' by Morgan Melhuish and 'Catalogue of my grandmother's sayings' by Claire Askew
A brilliant novel from award-winning writer and rising star Claire Askew. DI Helen Birch is recovering from major surgery, housebound and exceptionally bored. Her boss, DCI McLeod, has made it crystal clear: she is not to take on any work until her recuperation is over. In her absence, Amy Kato is promoted to sergeant and is given a maddening case to work on: Edinburgh is being plagued by an anonymous vigilante. He started small, meting out punishment to obnoxious boy racers and other antisocial folk, but his behaviour is escalating. Amy can tell from the anonymous online paper trail he leaves. His writings are increasingly confident, and increasingly threatening. And yet he also seems to be invisible: her team can find no clue as to his identity, and no trace of his whereabouts. At first, McLeod doesn't see the case as a huge deal. Concerned, Amy comes to Birch in secret to ask for help, and Birch finds it impossible to resist taking action: placing her directly in the path of immense danger ... A gripping crime thriller for fans of Susie Steiner, Elly Griffiths and Val McDermid - guaranteed to keep you up all night...
Welcome to the last episode of the season! Briana Pegado is a creative producer with more accomplishments on her resume than can be fitted into this box. In this conversation, Briana shares her life story - from getting her first guitar to becoming student president, creating and directing Edinburgh Student Arts Festival, signing a book deal, and so much more. And what better way to do that, than by pinpointing the movies that were with her throughout it all, and what they have meant to her? Stick around till the end for our roundtable where Lauren and Evita share a drink and reminisce over this season. Learn more: High Tide Media Boom Saloon Magazine The Delicate Rebellion The National Theatre of Scotland Custom Lane - Scotland's Centre for Design & Making ESAF - the Edinburgh Student Arts Festival Fringe of Colour Films We Are Here Scotland The Black Queer Travel Guide For more conversations with Briana: The Artist Is Mourning featured in The Skinny Magazine in October 2022 A Pinch of Magick Podcast on Healing, Transformation and Ethics The Modern Craft: Powerful Voices on Witchcraft Ethics Edited by Alice Tarbuck and Claire Askew. (Read chapter 13 for Briana's own contribution. Our Movement, Our Stories: Rhys Hollis on OMOS in the Skinny Magazine Follow her on Twitter | Instagram Keep up to date with the podcast on Instagram @MakingItWomeninFilm and @TheBonnieAndBraw Thank you. A production by Bonnie and Braw and LS Films. Host/Editor: Malin Evita Ditlefsen. Researcher: Lauren San Miguel. Music "Lo Fi Kitchen and Cooking" by MusicDog. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/makingitwomeninfilm/message
Claire Askew is the author of an acclaimed debut, This Changes Things (Bloodaxe), and has been shortlisted for the 2016 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Her poetry challenges its readers to consider the position from which they interpret it. She isn't content to merely point the finger; her work proceeds from an ongoing questioning of her own background and what it might blind her to. In our latest podcast, Askew discusses privilege, the danger of appropriating the experience of others, and why she's so drawn to writing poems about her grandparents. If you would prefer to read, rather than listen to, our podcast with Claire Askew, click here to see the transcript of the interview.
On today's episode I chat with AW Earl about their contribution to the book The Modern Craft: Powerful Voices on Witchcraft Ethics. Their essay is titled: Witch Boys and Devils on the Road: The Magick of Toxic Masculinity. We explore gender and its place in magick. As well as both the power and danger of being at the edges of society, in the liminal spaces. We also talk about the magick of writing and what intuitive magick looks and feels like to both of us. We talk about how the land can inform our magick, culture and traditions. And how the mundane, and the act of showing up, can often unlock the magick. About AW Earl: AW Earl is a contributor to The Modern Craft, ed. Dr Alice Tarbuck and Dr. Claire Askew. They have been quietly practicing Paganism and reading tarot for longer than they care to think about. A writer and storyteller, their work centers queerness, deviant bodies, folklore, and macabre. Connect You can find them @alysdragon on Twitter. The Book: The Modern Craft: powerful Voices on Witchcraft Ethics Get your copy hereCome and share you thoughts over in our magickal community: https://circle.thewitchacademy.com/c/community/ Or join me over on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themodernwitchway/ Lean more about the magick of you: www.RebeccaAnuwen.com
On today's episode I interview Dr Alice Tarbuck and Dr Claire Eskew about the book they have curated: The Modern Craft; Powerful voices on witchcraft ethics. We discuss the ethics, barriers and sustainability of witchcraft and how we ourselves can create a more ethical and inclusive practice. One that honours ourselves, those around us, traditions and planet Earth. This is a fascinating conversation full of magick, inspiration and thought provoking ideas. The Curators of the Book: The Modern Craft Dr Alice Tarbuck is a writer, author of A Spell In The Wild and academic specializing in witchcraft and environmental humanities. She has been featured in Nasty Women and The Dangerous Women Project, and she has spoken on witchcraft at Scottish PEN, Freedom TV and the Arthur Conan Doyle Centre. Dr Claire Askew is the author of three novels: All The Hidden Truths, What You Pay For and Cover Your Tracks. A fourth, A Matter of Time, is out this year. Also a poet, Claire's second collection How to burn a woman features voices from the European Witchcraft Hysteria. Claire's accolades include the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize, a Jessie Kesson Fellowship and the McIlvanney Debut Prize. Join the book launch The Portobello bookshop, Edinburgh, 14th June, 7pm. Online or in-person tickets available: The Modern Craft: Powerful Voices on Witchcraft Ethics | The Portobello Bookshop Ritual Magic Event, Lighthouse Bookshop 18.06.2022 : 18:30 - 19:30 Lighthouse | The Modern Craft : Powerful voices on witchcraft ethics (lighthousebookshop.com) London Book Launch - Watkins Books, 07 Jul, 17:30 London, 19-21 Cecil Ct, London WC2N 4EZ, UK The Modern Craft - Alice Tarbuck & Claire Askew | Watkins BookshopCome and share you thoughts over in our magickal community: https://circle.thewitchacademy.com/c/community/ Or join me over on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themodernwitchway/ Lean more about the magick of you: www.RebeccaAnuwen.com
We discuss 'A Story in Nine Rooms' by Dizz Tate and the poem 'Wetheral' by Claire Askew.
On The Alfred Daily Today: Students concerned about proposed school boarding house closure. Shaftesbury parking charges increase next week. Cools Farm Organics' ‘see the lambs' open day. Walk of the Week - Tom and Jan visit the trailway. Meet my Pet - Phil and George the Amazon green parrot. View From the Hill - Swansea couple love Shaftesbury scenery. Kate Scott's chicken keeping diary. Karen Cole's book review – ‘A Matter of Time' by Claire Askew. Soundscapes.
The acclaimed actor Kathryn Hunter plays all three witches in the forthcoming Hollywood adaptation of The Tragedy of Macbeth. The film is directed by Joel Coen and starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand as the central couple. Hunter tells Andrew Marr that she studied the witch hunts of the 17th century and was inspired by the ‘outcast women' who survived and suffered. Her performance is rooted in something real, but also hints at something created in the mind of Macbeth. Claire Askew's latest collection of poems, How To Burn A Woman, is a cauldron full of spells, power and love. It's peopled with witches, outsiders, and women who stand out. It too traces historic atrocities and celebrates the lives of those accused of witchcraft. But it also looks at contemporary relationships, of love bordering on infatuation, and the feelings of loss, bitterness and isolation at the end of an affair. When peculiar things begin to happen in the frontier town of Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, tensions rise and rumours spread of witches and heretics. What follows is a web of spite, paranoia and denunciation – a far cry from the English settlers' dreams of love and liberty at the dawn of the New World. The historian Malcolm Gaskill retells this dark, real-life folktale of witch-hunting in The Ruin Of All Witches. Producer: Katy Hickman (Image: Kathryn Hunter as one of the witches in The Tragedy of Macbeth, courtesy of Apple TV+)
Philippa interviews Claire Askew about her book "Cover Your Tracks" and also reviews "The Vow" by Debbie Howells, "Planet Earth is Blue" by Nicole Panteleakos, "A Year of Living Danishly" by Helen Russell and "Call for the Dead" By John Le Carre.
In this episode, guests Claire Askew and Rowland Kao chat about vintage stuff, lost meanings and viral transmission.Claire is an award-winning poet and novelist. Her debut novel, 'All the Hidden Truths', featuring the character DI Birch, won the 2016 Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize as a work in progress, and was selected as a Times Crime Book of the Month. The second novel in the DI Birch series, 'What You Pay For' was published in August 2019 and the latest, 'Cover Your Tracks', came out this summer. Rowland is Chair of Veterinary Epidemiology and Data Science at the Roslin Institute, part of the University of Edinburgh. He is a member of the Science Advisory Council at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and is working with Public Health Scotland on coronavirus modelling.Each episode of Sharing things is a conversation between two members of our university community. It could be a student, a member of staff or a graduate, the only thing they have in common at the beginning is Edinburgh. We start with an object. A special, treasured or significant item that we have asked each guest to bring to the conversation. What happens next is sometimes funny, sometimes moving and always unexpected. Find out more at www.ed.ac.uk/sharing-things-podcast
NOVELISTA is a friendly, straight-talking writing guide for people who want to write a novel but don't know how to begin. It asks all the important questions and gives a host of reassuring answers that demonstrate that anyone can write a novel - even you! To begin with, what the hell is a novel? It's basically a tiny world, where characters are born, live, and (sometimes) die. To write one all you need is a notebook and a pen - but along the way you'll want to learn about good writing habits, planning, mastering descriptions and dialogue and how to pull it all together. This book will guide you through the process and orient you towards the goal of publication. From absolute beginner to novelista, this book will change the way you write and think about writing.
Claire Askew won the Scottish Debut Crime Award with her debut All the Hidden Truths, praised as 'A meticulous and compelling novel' by Ian Rankin. 'What if I told you,' he said, 'that I believe my mother's life to be in danger?' Robertson Bennet returns to Edinburgh after a 25-year absence in search of his parents and his inheritance. But both have disappeared. A quick, routine police check should be enough - and Detective Inspector Helen Birch has enough on her plate trying to help her brother, Charlie, after an assault in prison. But all her instincts tell her not to let this case go. And so she digs. George and Phamie Bennet were together for a long time. No one can ever really know the secrets kept between husband and wife. But as Birch slowly begins to unravel the truth, terrible crimes start to rise to the surface. Beautifully written and ingeniously plotted, Cover Your Tracks confirms Claire Askew as a major new talent in crime fiction.
Claire Askew is the award-winning author of the DI Helen Birch crime series. The first book in the series, All the Hidden Truths, deals with the aftermath of a college shooting in Edinburgh and won the McIlvanney Debut Prize at the Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival. The next book in the DI Birch series, What You Pay For, is a blistering follow-up which has also been shortlisted for the McIlvanney and CWA Awards.We had a great chat with Claire, exploring the long and winding process to the publication of All The Hidden Truths (which included her taking the brave step of leaving her first agent), discuss why the idea of overnight success as an author is a myth - and why believing in writer's block is a dangerous thing!Links:Buy All The Hidden Truths and What You Pay For on AmazonSign up to Claire's Patreon for lots of writing advice!The Page One Podcast is brought to you by Write Gear, creators of Page One - the Writer's Notebook. Learn more and order yours now: https://www.writegear.co.uk/page-oneFollow us on Twitter: @write_gearFollow us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/WriteGearUK/Follow us on Instagram: write_gear_uk See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This is the BONUS CONTENT from the first episode of Authors Unedited, where I interviewed award-winning poet and novelist Claire Askew. We had so many audience questions, and so little time on the first episode, that I am releasing them as bonus content! Claire is the author of This Changes Things, All The Hidden Truths, and What You Pay For. You can find out more about Claire @OneNightStanzas on Twitter, @One.Night.Stanzas on Instagram, and you can check out her Patreon where she provides writing services and digital workshops: https://www.patreon.com/claireaskew This episode has been kindly sponsored by Golden Hare Books: http://www.goldenharebooks.com
This is the first episode of Authors Unedited, and I have interviewed award-winning poet and novelist Claire Askew. Claire is the author of This Changes Things, All The Hidden Truths, and What You Pay For. You can find out more about Claire @OneNightStanzas on Twitter, @One.Night.Stanzas on Instagram, and you can check out her Patreon where she provides writing services and digital workshops: https://www.patreon.com/claireaskew This episode has been kindly sponsored by Golden Hare Books: http://www.goldenharebooks.com
DI Helen Birch faces a terrible choice - family or justice? - in the gripping second novel from the author of All the Hidden Truths DI Birch joined the police to find her little brother, who walked out of his life one day and was never seen again. She stayed to help others, determined to seek justice where she could. On the fourteenth anniversary of Charlie's disappearance, Birch takes part in a raid on one of Scotland's most feared criminal organisations. It's a good day's work - a chance to get a dangerous man off the streets. Two days later, Charlie comes back. It's not a coincidence. When Birch finds out exactly what he's been doing all those years, she faces a terrible choice: save the case, or save her brother. But how can you do the right thing when all the consequences are bad? As she interrogates Charlie, he tells his story: of how one wrong turn leads to a world in which the normal rules no longer apply, and you do what you must to survive. From one of the most acclaimed new voices in crime fiction, What You Pay For is a brilliantly tense and moving novel about the terrible disruption caused by violence and the lines people will cross to protect those they love.
Fole #17: Heute begleiten wir Detectiv Helen Birch bei Ihren Ermittlungen zu einem fragwürdigen Amoklauf am Three Rivers College in Edinburgh. Das Buch 'Todesschweigen' von Claire Askew ist ein absolutes Muss für jeden Krimi Fan.
Authors Olivia Kiernan and Claire Askew talk about writing their second novels, about inspiration and about the research required for crime fiction.
In a depressingly topical scenario, we talk to poet and novelist Claire Askew about the poems she'd take with her to her Cumbrian apocalypse cottage. A further reading list can be found here: https://eptiyhtbtiswfappotwlhoryqltbafcp.tumblr.com/post/174785014063/12-claire-askew-further-reading
Last year, the publisher Freight put out an anthology called Umbrellas of Edinburgh. This collection of new work brought together poems all about Scotland’s capital. Co-edited by Claire Askew and Russell Jones, Umbrellas of Edinburgh is a poetic map of the city, from the centre and Princess Street, to the rim of the city and areas like Wester Hailes. There are also, as you’ll hear, poems about Edinburgh’s monuments and landmarks. Many of the poets you’ll hear have appeared on previous SPL podcasts, writers such as Harry Giles, Christine De Luca and Ryan Van Winkle. Many may be new to you. There’s even a poem about the Scottish Poetry Library waiting for you at the end of the podcast. Image: Umbrellas Near London Bridge by C., under a Creative Commons licence
Claire Askew is the author of an acclaimed debut, This Changes Things (Bloodaxe), and has been shortlisted for the 2016 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Her poetry challenges its readers to consider the position from which they interpret it. She isn't content to merely point the finger; her work proceeds from an ongoing questioning of her own background and what it might blind her to. In our latest podcast, Askew discusses privilege, the danger of appropriating the experience of others, and why she's so drawn to writing poems about her grandparents.
Listen HEREI am very pleased to welcome back Francis Glass, coordinator of Animal Liberation Youth, from Animal Liberation Victoria. In our last interview we talked about non-vegan volunteers handing out literature, and this episode we would like to respond to the comments and concerns that raised about this subject, as it is definitely something that needs to be discussed. Thank you to Karin Hilpisch for your comments!We also talk about young people who are going vegan and how important they are to our future, and what it is like for a young person who is still living with their parents to go vegan, the resistance some kids get from their families and 13 and 14 year olds dealing with parents who are hostile to veganism and actively try to prevent their children from being vegan. We discuss the different reasons why the parents may be reacting in this way and try to come up with more ideas on ways to help them and their children through that. This is something us independent, adult vegans can't relate to as we control our own home environments and the products that we buy, so I am very grateful to Francis for offering us some insight into that, and for reminding us that it is not so easy for young people living in controlled environments as it is for independent adults.We also go on to talk about why we promote ethical reasons to go vegan above all other reasons such as health, environment etc, while still stressing that knowledge of these other aspects is essential too.In my next interview with Francis we will discuss further comments raised about protesting in front of KFC and the like with regard to promoting veganism and not single issue campaigns. We didn't get a chance to cover that this time as we went off to talk about other things (as often happens on this podcast) however please be assured we will be talking about that, as it is also very relevant and valid topic for discussion. Thanks again to listeners for the great feedback and insight and suggestions and thanks to Francis for coming back on the show!Here is the link to the Vegan Easy Challenge mentioned on the show: link hereThis is what ALL the animal groups should be doing.I mentioned a book written by a teenage vegan called Claire Askew, who I heard interviewed on Vegan Freak Radio. Claire wrote a book for teenage vegans called Generation V, and it is a fantastic resource for teenagers. Listen to the Vegan Freaks interview with Claire hereI also mentioned a quote by Marin Luther King, Jr. which in my usual style I had not committed to memory and so totally screwed up. Please forgive me as always. I will work on that! Here is the quote:"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."- Marin Luther King, Jr.UPDATE: If anyone's audio is messed up about halfway through, please re-download. I am so sorry for making anyone download this twice. I totally messed up, and there is some audio from the last interview mixed in by accident. I loaded up the correct file. Please delete the messed up audio and re-download. Sorry!
The third Scottish Poetry Library Podcast is full to bursting with the multitude of events which happen at the Scottish Poetry Library. Starting off with two interviews with young people in Edinburgh about the poems they love. The first is with the multitalented Ishbel McFarlane and her love of Burns and the second involves the up-and-coming poet Claire Askew discussing "Jabberwocky". We also include some snippets from our second noisy day and you'll have the chance to hear selected highlights from the event "Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect" featuring Robyn Marsack, Robert Crawford and Douglas Dunn. Presented by Ryan van Winkle and produced by Colin Fraser.