Festival Radio, with EHFM
Watch online with EHFM
Can’t join us in Edinburgh? We’re delighted to be working with EHFM again to livestream a selection of events from Push the Boat Out 2026, completely free of charge.
From conversations and readings to performances across the festival weekend, you can tune in live and experience Push the Boat Out wherever you are.
All broadcasts are free to watch live via EHFM at ehfm.live.
So, whether you’re joining us at the Pleasance or tuning in from further afield, there are plenty of ways to be part of #PTBOFestival2026.
Saturday 14 November
In Conversation: Karen Solie and Sarah Howe
3:00 pm - 3:55 pm
Karen Solie’s 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize winning collection, Wellwater, is described as holding “two sentiments, The world is a beautiful place / The world is a terrible place, in perfect equipoise”. Also shortlisted, Sarah Howe’s Foretokens navigates the complex inheritance of family, language and colonialism. Join them to discuss these luminous collections.
Sunday 15 November
In Conversation: Anthony Joseph
1:00 pm - 1:55 pm
Anthony Joseph has been celebrated as ‘the leader of the black avant-garde in Britain.’ His new collection, Haunting the Black Air, journeys between London, New York, Trinidad and beyond, moving from unabashed joy to crippling grief. Join the award-winning author for readings from and discussions about this formally daring and emotionally incisive collection.
In Conversation: Naomi Shihab Nye
3:00 pm - 3:55 pm
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye read live! Join the former Young People’s Poet Laureate for the USA, in conversation with Alycia Pirmohamed, for a mixture of readings and discussion of her work, which is by turns humorous, immediate and urgently political.