Podcast appearances and mentions of holly pester

We talk about our 2025 literary projects, and writer Holly Pester joins us to discuss her novel on the precarity of temporary living spaces, The Lodgers, Assembly Press's submssion for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize, US & Canada.Thank you for listening! If you like what you hear, give us a follow at: X: Across the Pond, Galley Beggar Press, Interabang Books, Lori Feathers, Sam JordisonInstagram: Across the Pond, Galley Beggar Press, Interabang Books, Lori Feathers, Sam JordisonFacebook: Across the Pond, Galley Beggar Press, Interabang BooksBluesky: @acrossthepondbooks.bsky.socialThe Big Book Project https://substack.com/@thebigbookprojectTheme music by Carlos Guajardo-Molina

In this final part of my interview with Joanne McNeill, author of Wrong Way (a novel set in the near future at a company that manages driverless cars) and Lurking (a non-fiction look at the history of the internet from a user's perspective), we peek at what's coming around the bend for her and I get her answers to my fast five questions. We talked about: The novel The Lodgers by Holly Pester, about the housing crisis, and how it hurts a little bit every time she has to put it down because it's so good Joanne's sci-fi inspirations, including Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, Ursula Le Guin, and Octavia Butler, and what specifically about their work fuels her writing How avant garde sci fi novels used to sell hundreds of thousands of copies–and how this hunger for challenging work is still present, even if you're not a fancy city elite A tiny sneak peek at the new book she's working on. OK, not really, but she does share how she's trying to write this one differently and push back on the ideas she's created about how she writes best Joanne's answers to the fast 5 questions–a book she was stunned by, where she gets her coffee beans, the Kate Bush song she finds so meaningful that she only listens to it a couple of times a year so it doesn't lose its power, her favorite season, and the perfect wrap sandwich she would ask for if someone offered to make or buy absolutely anything she wanted. Joanne's website: https://www.joannemcneil.com/ For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holly Pester discusses her debut novel, The Lodgers, with Nathalie Olah. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ian McMillan is leaning into unease this week as he discusses writing and Claustrophobia. His guests are Holly Pester, whose new novel 'The Lodgers' examines the psychological disturbances of precarious housing situations; we meet a woman renting a flat that is more like a sandwich packet than a house, and another who must make her own life extremely small as she lodges with a family.Catherine Coldsteam's new memoir is ‘Cloistered', a book about the twelve years she spent in a Carmelite monastery where she lived the life of a silent contemplative nun.Hannah Sullivan won the T.S. Eliot award for her collection ‘Three Poems'. Her latest book ‘Was it For This' considers a life shrunk small by new motherhood.The last in our series of Verb Dramas is Ghost In The Machine by Karen FeatherstonePresenter: Ian McMillan Producer: Jessica Treen

This week's guest is guest is Jem Calder, author of Reward System a series of interlinked stories that charts a group of friends in their mid-twenties as they struggle to make something of their lives in an indifferent, often hostile, 21st century metropolis.Sally Rooney said that “Reward System is an exhilarating and beautiful book by an extraordinarily gifted writer. Reading these stories, I found myself thinking newly and differently about contemporary life” while Holly Pester called it “'A crushing and clear-sighted portrayal of people dodging the alienation of work, money and life's digital shorelines” adding that the short scenes were “so brilliantly observed I felt the reality of a generation in every detail.”*SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR BONUS EPISODESLooking for Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses? https://podfollow.com/sandcoulyssesIf you want to spend even more time at Shakespeare and Company, you can now subscribe for regular bonus episodes and early access to Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses.Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoSubscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/shakespeare-and-company-writers-books-and-paris/id1040121937?l=enAll money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit, created to fund our noncommercial activities—from the upstairs reading library, to the writers-in-residence program, to our charitable collaborations, and our free events.*Jem Calder was born in Cambridge, and lives and works in London. His fiction has been published in The Stinging Fly and Granta. Reward System is his first bookAdam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Buy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeListen to Alex Freiman's Play It Gentle here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Shak Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pages 185 - 189 │Aeolus, part VI│Read by Holly PesterHolly Pester is a poet and writer. She has worked in sound art and performance, with BBC Radio, Women's Art Library and Wellcome Collection. She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at University of Essex. Buy Comic Timing here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9781783786862/comic-timingFollow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hollypestyFollow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hollypesty*Looking for our author interview podcast? Listen here: https://podfollow.com/shakespeare-and-companySUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURESAll episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribing, you can now get early access to recordings of complete sections.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/shakespeare-and-company/id6442697026Subscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoIn addition a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of our author interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit.*Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.comBuy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulyssesFind out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/homeAdam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Find out more about him here: https://www.adambiles.netBuy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco.Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpSVisit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my website:florahibberd.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ Music production by Adrien Chicot.Hear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Throughout November, Technecast is hosting the Invitations Series, which is made up of four conversations by Judah Attille, Therese Henningsen, Mark Aerial Waller and Astrid Korporaal. Each episode is based on a research encounter with a creative practitioner connected to the field of sound and moving image. Together, the episodes question the relationships between audience, screen, maker and subject. This week features a conversation between writer and curator Taylor Le Melle and independent filmmaker, Judah Attille. During the UK COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, the producers reflect on milestones in their ongoing dialogue on art practice, education, and language. "On 14th December 2020, I used my Zoom H4n to record the sound of heavy rain from my window and sent the file to the writer, curator Taylor Le Melle. In retrospect, it was the equivalent of sending out a digital flare. After months into UK COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, without the benefits of practice and interaction in a dedicated artist studio, it was daunting to speculate on the status of a conversation that began in the summer of 2019 after a 16mm Found Footage workshop led by artist and filmmaker Rhea Storr. However, on 14th December, I was confident in the value of my audio avatar and its potential as a sonic invitation. I was hopeful of its appeal, its watery properties, its geopolitical poetry. The unfailing inspiration I derive from the sound of waves and rain, now a motif in my research practice, brought on renewed optimism. By October 2021, our online conversations gathered momentum. The result? A peer-to-peer, interdisciplinary, pre-recorded moving image presentation, ‘A Considered Cut', for the event Collage as Method, Manuscript and Moving Image: Cutting Edge, one of the many generative events in the conference Cutting Edge: Collage in Britain, 1945 to Now, hosted by the Paul Mellon Centre, Yale University in collaboration with Tate Britain. ‘A Considered Cut' is the result of an expanded not/nowhere 16mm Found Footage Workshop in collaboration with Somatic acting artist-researcher-educator, Christina Kapadocha, Artist, educator, author, researcher, Ilga Leimanis, Independent curator and writer, Taylor Le Melle with Filmmaker Ibrahim Kargbo, Artist-filmmaker, Rhea Storr." - Judah Attille, 19th October 2021 Links: Taylor Le Melle [https://sandberg.nl/taylor-le-melle/staff] not/nowhere [https://not-nowhere.org/about] The Politics of Delivery (Against Poet-Voice) by Holly Pester [https://poetrysociety.org.uk/the-politics-of-delivery-against-poet-voice/] Collage as Method, Manuscript and Moving Image: Cutting Edge 7 October 2021; An event as part of the multi-part conference programme 'Cutting Edge: Collage in Britain, 1945 to Now' Paul Mellon Centre, Yale University in collaboration with Tate Britain Online [https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/past/collage-as-method-manuscript-moving-image] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dKhvFdwWDc&list=PLf4F3b0ZQ-Hl_mYj9rndodJleGVXitdgN&index=2] * Interdisciplinary Artist, Taylor Le Melle (they/them) is one of the founding members of artists workers' cooperative, not/nowhere. [https://not-nowhere.org/about] * Independent filmmaker, Judah Attille (she/her) is a University of the Arts TECHNE practice-based PhD research candidate. Her contributions to the extended TECHNE research community includes: Africandescence, Research Poster, The In Between, Techne Congress, University of Surrey, January 2020; Situated Writing, Student Pecha Kucha Presentations (and others), Poetics of Method, Techne Congress, University of Brighton, July 2019; Spectrum Notes, video installation, Making from the Mess, Techne Student-Led Conference, St Luke's Community Centre, November 2019. [http://www.techne.ac.uk/for-students/techne-students/techne-students/techne-students-2018-19/attile] * Image credit: Judah Attille, Downpour at Dalston Junction, 30 July 2021

Kicking off our series of BFDay '21 recordings is a big one! The poetry showcase, featuring readings from Anthony Anaxagorou, Will Harris, Daisy Lafarge, Holly Pester, Nisha Ramayya, Peter Scalpello and Stephanie Sy-Quia, along with bonus piano playing also from Will Harris. Produced by Daniel Fuller.

Holly Pester's debut collection, Comic Timing (Granta), is disorienting, radical and extremely funny; Pester has a background in sound art and performance, having worked with the Womens' Library, the BBC and the Wellcome Collection, and is an unmissable reader of her own work. She read from Comic Timing and was in conversation with Vahni Capildeo, whose most recent collection is Skin Can Hold (Carcanet, 2019), and Rachael Allen, poetry editor at Granta and author of Kingdomland (Faber, 2019). See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ian McMillan gets into the subjunctive mood with brand new writing from Toby Litt, a new poetry commission from Holly Pester, on the subjunctive in welsh with Menna Elfyn and Rob Drummond explains why the subjunctive is dying out amongst the young... Presenter: Ian McMillan Producer: Cecile Wright

In the penultimate episode of our first series, Rachael and Jack are joined in the studio by Holly Pester and Sam Riviere, plus a pat of butter and a set of nail clippers, which inspire conversations about poetry writing and its relationship to research, archives and procrastination. Audio postcards featured in this episode are: ‘Pathetic earthlings’ written and read by Will Harris. ‘Sparkhill’ written and read by Zaffar Kunial. ‘Nude in the Cat House’ written and read by Monica McClure. For more information, author bios & links see [here](https://www.faber.co.uk/blog/faber-poetry-podcast-episode-five-holly-pester-sam-riviere). The Faber Poetry Podcast is produced by Rachael Allen, Jack Underwood and Hannah Marshall for Faber & Faber. Editing by Billy Godfrey at Strathmore Publishing. Special thanks to Will Harris, Zaffar Kunial, Monica McClure, Holly Pester and Sam Riviere. Catch up on our previous episodes here or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts. If you like our show you can subscribe on iTunes so you don’t miss forthcoming episodes in our first six-part series and please rate and review us, if you feel inclined to do so, we're very grateful for the support of all our listeners – thank you!

March 2016. A transcript of this conversation is available here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/ep-62-rest-lpp-transcript.pdf David Turner talks to Dr Holly Pester and Dr James Wilkes about their involvement in the residency programme, 'Hubbub at Wellcome Collection'. Holly and James discuss how the residency's theme of 'Rest' has come to inform new work. This episode contains three readings: (00:33:47) - 'A rush of bad sleep' by Holly Pester (00:36:49) - 'Tell us how' by Holly Pester (00:51:27) - Excerpt from 'So even the tree has its yolk' by Jamie Wilkes For more info see: www.twitter.com/Silent_Tongue Holly: www.hollypester.com www.twitter.com/hollypesty James: www.renscombepress.co.uk www.twitter.com/wilkesjames Residency: www.hubbubgroup.org www.twitter.com/hubbubgroup www.wellcomecollection.org www.twitter.com/ExploreWellcome

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the FIFTH Mercy Podcast for Liverpool Biennial is a guest/host cast by avant garde romantics Holly Pester and Daniel Rourke Sampling, Acclimatisation, and the 'Die Hard' Method. Written, presented and edited by: Daniel Rourke and Holly Pester