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Dive into Poetry and Performance with Push the Boat Out’s Podcast Series!
Over the past five years, we’ve worked with EHFM to livestream some of the best moments from our festival programme. Every two months we’ll be releasing new recordings from our festival archives featuring incredible performances and thought-provoking discussions.
Catch up on past episodes anytime via our SoundCloud channel, or explore our previous guests and recordings on our podcasts page.
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LATEST EPISODE: Double Bill: Sasha Dugdale and Oksana Maksymchuk
Contemporary poetry has the power to challenge, confront uncomfortable truths, and bear witness to the unimaginable.
As part of Push the Boat Out 2024, poets Sasha Dugdale and Oksana Maksymchuk came together for a powerful conversation exploring the role of poetry in times of war and upheaval. Chaired by Alice Eaves through the ConVERSE Emerging Chairs Programme with the University of Edinburgh, this event offered an unflinching and moving look at how poetry responds to conflict.
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Titans of Poetry: Ella Frears and Caroline Bird
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A discussion between Caroline Bird and Ella Frears, chaired by our director Emma Collins, was one of our most popular events in 2024. Caroline Bird’s Ambush at Still Lake shows us the ambush of real life that occurs in the stillness after the happy ending, while Ella Frears’ Goodlord: An Email is a genre-defying book that takes the form of one long email, addressed to an estate agent. In this recording they talk about their work and the absurdity, heartbreak, and unexpected humour that comes from writing at the edges of form and feeling. |
Behind Disrupting the Narrative
Disrupting the Narrative opened Push the Boat Out in 2024 with a theatrical performance exploring Edinburgh’s heritage from the perspective of its colonial past and uncovering stories of the city that haven’t always been acknowledged. Behind Disrupting the Narrative is a discussion based on the performance that further explores how art can contribute to the decolonisation of our heritage and the importance of doing so.
Curator of Discomfort at the Hunterian Museum Zandra Yeaman and founder of the Edinburgh Caribbean Association Lisa Williams join the former Edinburgh Makar Hannah Lavery to discuss Disrupting the Narrative and the decolonisation of Edinburgh’s past. Part of the Edinburgh 900 Anniversary programme.
