On the eve of our commemoration of Tony Harrison’s poetry at the Durham Book Festival, we share three poems written as responses to Harrison’s seminal v., by Malika Booker, Jo Clement and Paul Farley. The poems were commissioned by New Writing North, in a project chaired by Andrew McMillan.
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On the eve of our commemoration of Tony Harrison’s poetry at the Durham Book Festival, we share three poems written as responses to Harrison’s seminal v., by Malika Booker, Jo Clement and Paul Farley. The poems were commissioned by New Writing North, in a project chaired by Andrew McMillan.
Terri White joins Claire Malcolm, Chief Executive of New Writing North, and Richard Benson, editor of The Bee, to discuss Catherine Cookson’s controversial 1968 novel Colour Blind.
Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series of novels, and one of the world's best-selling authors, talked to The Bee about how his British working-class background influences his work
"This was not about nutrition. It was not about filling them up. It was absolutely not about the peace of sharing a meal. It was about belonging in a society that had no place for us."
Lee Child joins Claire Malcolm, Chief Executive of New Writing North, and Richard Benson, editor of The Bee, to discuss Dreda Say Mitchell’s groundbreaking 2004 novel Running Hot.
Dreda Say Mitchell was told that “someone like her” would never be accepted as a writer. But in 2004 her east London-set novel Running Hot became a hit – and changed British crime fiction.
At school, pupils and teachers bullied Louise Powell because her parents got Income Support. She found solace and friendship in greyhounds and racing. But then the bullies came back.
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David Peace joins Claire Malcolm, Chief Executive of New Writing North, and Richard Benson, editor of The Bee, to discuss David Storey’s classic, controversial 1960 kitchen-sink novel, This Sporting Life.
Georgia Poplett’s introduction to David Storey’s novel and film about a young rugby league star in 1960s Yorkshire, and its place in the Northern Realist and Angry Young Men movements.
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