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Showcase of new writers
Over the past few months,
new writers from across London have
been coming together to record examples of their work.
Click on
the links or buttons to listen and to find out more.
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Wayne
Boucaud
Wayne is a musician and member of Camden
Community Radio. He reads two poems which he originally
wrote as songs.
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'Doctor' - poem for Bernie Grant -
1m 31s |
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'Americanism' - 1m 31s |
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Marian
Larragy
Marian Larragy is the Chair of Camden Community Radio.
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Poem about her visit to Northern
Ireland in the 1980s - 2m 02s |
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Rashmi
Meswani
Rashmi Meswani is a student on the PEARLS radio production and
presentation course at Desi Radio in Southall.
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Poem about a man she saw in the
traffic in Bombay - 3m 21s |
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Sara Eliot
I am a poet
and singer/songwriter. My poem 'Space' was inspired by
a friend, who talked about growing up in India. As he talked, he
conjured up a feeling of freedom….
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'Space' - 2m
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Anthony Malone
Anthony
Malone is 34 and lives in South London. He has completed the two
year Birkbeck Certificate of Creative Writing and is a member of
The Writer’s Block, a group of Birkbeck certificate graduates.
His fiction has appeared on the Guardian Online website and he
has performed at the “Writloud” event at RADA.
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'Ghosts of the Real Leather Jacket'
- 3m 44s |
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Deborah Zucker-Boardman
I am a mature Creative Writing and Philosophy student at Middlesex University, Trent Park Campus.
My first poem is 'Women In War'. This is a poem about women all over the world and how war affects them.
The second, 'Ina's Cannonballs', is about an old apple tree growing on my Grandmother's land and how she turned
its hard old apples into delicious apple butter every year.
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'Women in War' -
1m 43s |
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'Ina's
Cannonballs' - 1m 11s |
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Barbara Starling
Barbara’s first novel, the ten-volume Alois, the Talking
Horse, written when she was seven, was an enormous success with friends and family. More recently, she’s written about self-made millionaires, musical stars and foot fetishists for several Austrian magazines. Her play
Tosca Mortale was published by Theaterverlag Bunte Bühne, Vienna. She is currently doing an MA in Creative Writing at City University.
Male voice: Michael Law.
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'Bad News' - 3m 45s |
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Extract from her novel - working
title Leave the Cagedoor Open - 3m 21s |
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Mark Skinner
Mark has recently graduated from the Masters programme in Creative Writing at Kingston University. Throughout the course he has been working on
Shadow Play, a thriller about a middle aged man's search for his missing daughter. One of his plays is due to be published by Magic Fox and he occasionally performs sketch comedy as part of Your Left Foot.
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Extract from Shadow Play -
6m 18s |
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'Roadside' - 2m 53s |
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Paul Read
Paul
Read graduated with a first in Fine Art from the Kent Institute
of Art and Design before moving to the big smoke and finding
work, at one time or another, in nearly every bookshop in the
West End. He
currently teaches three days a week in North London
and devotes
the rest of his time to fiction writing, of which 'Hardly an
Overnight Sensation' is his latest work.
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'Echoes'
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Caroline de Gier
Caroline de Gier lives in West London with her Dutch husband,
her three children and a Jack Russell! She worked in film and
television for over fifteen years. She started writing poems and
short stories as a child. Currently at City University, London,
on the MA Creative Writing course, her debut novel The
Graffiti Tree will be launched this year.
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'A
Radio in Africa' - 3m 44s |
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Annette Davis
Annette Davis, mother of 4, is currently studying radio
production at Lambeth College. Her confidence to write poetry
came from a creative writing course at the college. Her poem
'Turning Point' is about surviving a broken relationship.
Her second poem 'Mother' is a reflection of herself and the
experiences of other women in the world.
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'Turning
Point' - 1m 02s |
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'Mother' -
2m 03s |
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Nadine George
Caesar
Nadine is a creative artist from London, who combines poetic forms and vocal melodies to create an inspiring demonstration of musicality. Continuously developing and growing within her art
form, she is currently frequenting the open-mic circuit to establish herself within the creative industries and to also uplift and entertain those around her.
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'And
I His Oracle' - 1m 51s |
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'May I Be Beautiful' -
1m 22s |
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Brigette Bennett
Brigette Bennett has been singing a long time but writing poetry even longer - since the age of 7, (a poem about
Creation, now lost to posterity). The historical, cultural, scientific and the spiritual are her concerns and learning the lessons life and others teach are among her endeavours.
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'Yesterday
the Fridge' - 2m 01s |
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'In
the Garden' - 1m 36s |
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'You'
- 0m 43s |
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