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Writer's VoiceStories for Survival: Eiren Caffall, ALL THE WATER IN THE WORD and Ishion Hutchinson, FUGITIVE TILTS
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform.
Episode Summary
Today’s episode brings together two extraordinary voices in literature—each grappling with the legacies of crisis, survival, and identity.
First, we speak with Eiren Caffall about her novel, All the Water in the World, a haunting, hope-filled work of climate fiction set in a post-collapse New York.
“I wanted to write something where I could imagine a future where all of the worst case scenarios had come to pass… and think through on the page whether I believed...2025-04-2859 minWriter's Voice with Francesca RheannonStories for Survival: Eiren Caffall, ALL THE WATER IN THE WORD and Ishion Hutchinson, FUGITIVE TILTS
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform.
Episode Summary
Today’s episode brings together two extraordinary voices in literature—each grappling with the legacies of crisis, survival, and identity.
First, we speak with Eiren Caffall about her novel, All the Water in the World, a haunting, hope-filled work of climate fiction set in a post-collapse New York.
“I wanted to write something where I could imagine a future where all of the worst case scenarios had come to pass… and think through on the page whether I believed...2025-04-2859 min
WRFI Community Radio NewsPoetry and Reggae: Interviews with Kwame Dawes and Ishion HutchinsonJacob White of "Jamaican Clash" presents two important interviews examining the intersection of poetry, liberation, and reggae music. Kwame Dawes is the Poet Laureate of Jamaica as well as reggae scholar and the author of over 30 books. He's done award-winning reporting on AIDS in Haiti.Ishion Hutchinson is the author of three books of poetry and has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and other honors. His newest book, School of Instructions: Poems, explores the role of West Indian soldiers in WWI.2025-04-081h 11
The Shakespeare and Company InterviewPoetry: Ishion Hutchinson reads from and discusses School of InstructionsSchool of Instructions, the latest work by Ishion Hutchinson, draws from the time he spent in the archive of the Imperial War Museum, to foreground the experience—brutal, significant, but long overlooked—of West Indian volunteers in the First World War. This book length poem is a sensorial voyage into the convoys, garrisons and trenches of the Middle Eastern war theatre in all its monstrousness and disorientation, in which Ishion Hutchinson masterfully deploys his immense gift for spiriting vivid, textured, and living images from the page. The poem also juxtaposes the horror of war with the life of Godspeed, an o...2024-08-2247 minThe Shakespeare and Company InterviewPoetry: Ishion Hutchinson reads from and discusses School of InstructionsSchool of Instructions, the latest work by Ishion Hutchinson, draws from the time he spent in the archive of the Imperial War Museum, to foreground the experience—brutal, significant, but long overlooked—of West Indian volunteers in the First World War. This book length poem is a sensorial voyage into the convoys, garrisons and trenches of the Middle Eastern war theatre in all its monstrousness and disorientation, in which Ishion Hutchinson masterfully deploys his immense gift for spiriting vivid, textured, and living images from the page. The poem also juxtaposes the horror of war with the life of Godspeed, an o...2024-08-2247 min
Poëzie VandaagRood X (Ishion Hutchinson)Vandaag: 'Rood X' van Ishion Hutchinson (1983). Voorgedragen en geduid door Ellen Deckwitz.2024-07-1602 min
Poem-a-DayIshion Hutchinson: "Club Paradise"Recorded by Ishion Hutchinson for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on January 26, 2024. www.poets.org2024-01-2608 min
Faber Poetry PodcastIshion Hutchinson & Oluwaseun Olayiwola + Emilia ClarkeOh what a night. . . In this special episode, recorded live at the London Review Bookshop, Rachael and Jack are joined by Ishion Hutchinson and Oluwaseun Olayiwola, and we have an audio postcard from Charlotte Mew, delivered by the actress Emilia Clarke.
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ISHION HUTCHINSON was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of the poetry collections Far District, winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, and House of Lords and Commons, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. He is the recipient of a G...2023-12-111h 07
Berkeley TalksPoet Ishion Hutchinson reads 'The Mud Sermon' and other poemsIn Berkeley Talks episode 179, Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson reads several poems, including "The Mud Sermon," "The Bicycle Eclogue" and "After the Hurricane." His April reading was part of the UC Berkeley Library’s monthly event Lunch Poems."I take this voyage into poetry very seriously," begins Hutchinson, "and take none of it for granted, because of the weight of history, both growing up in Jamaica and knowing the violent history that comes with that. But also the violence, too, of canon, and seeing that my work as a poet, in part, is to figure out what sort of em...2023-09-0941 min
so...poetry?s6ep1 - so many poetriesin which Monica Prince and i discuss choreopoetry, action movie metatext, and our mutual love of chapbooks
where to find Monica:
website - https://monicaprince.com/
facebook - @MonicaPrinceChoreopoet
twitter - @poetic_moni
instagram - @poetic_moni
Roadmap preorder - https://santa-fe-writers-project.square.site/product/roadmap/76?cs=true&cst=custom
other things referenced:
Ntozake Shange - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ntozake-shange
choreopoetry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choreopoem
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Colored_Girls_Who_Have_Considered_Suicide_/_When_the_Rainbow_Is_Enuf
...2023-03-062h 11
Life ExaminedBlack poetry and the unearthing of forgotten historiesBlack writers and poets Quraysh Ali Lansana and Ishion Hutchinson share how their poetry is shaped by history, tradition, and the unearthing of forgotten histories.2023-02-1853 min
The Atlantic Magazine in AudioThe Anabasis of Godspeed -- Ishion Hutchinson -- January/February 2023“The Anabasis of Godspeed” is excerpted from a forthcoming book-length poem, School of Instructions. A memorial to the experience of West Indian soldiers serving in British regiments during World War I, the poem is also the narrative of Godspeed, a young boy living in rural Jamaica in the 1990s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-12-2202 minThe Atlantic Magazine in AudioThe Anabasis of Godspeed -- Ishion Hutchinson -- January/February 2023“The Anabasis of Godspeed” is excerpted from a forthcoming book-length poem, School of Instructions. A memorial to the experience of West Indian soldiers serving in British regiments during World War I, the poem is also the narrative of Godspeed, a young boy living in rural Jamaica in the 1990s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-12-2202 minThe Atlantic Magazine in AudioThe Anabasis of Godspeed -- Ishion Hutchinson -- January/February 2023“The Anabasis of Godspeed” is excerpted from a forthcoming book-length poem, School of Instructions. A memorial to the experience of West Indian soldiers serving in British regiments during World War I, the poem is also the narrative of Godspeed, a young boy living in rural Jamaica in the 1990s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices2022-12-2202 min
Southword Poetry PodcastIshion Hutchinson: House of Lords and CommonsIshion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He is the author of two poetry collections: Far District and House of Lords and Commons. He is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize, the Whiting Writers Award, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, among others. He is a contributing editor to the literary journals The Common and Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art and teaches in the graduate writing program at Cornell...2022-11-2540 min
Raport z Literatury#16 Światy: Bartosz Wójcik o literaturze karaibskiejJeśli chcesz zostać patronką bądź patronem Raportu, zapraszam o tu: https://patronite.pl/raportzliteratury
✨w najnowszej serii Światy rozmawiam ze specjalistami i specjalistkami od literatur z zakątków globu: zdałam sobie sprawę, że o nich, mimo bycia literaturoznawczynią i krytyczką literacką, wiem najmniej. Dlatego też głos oddaję tu ekspertkom i ekspertom: proszę gości o listę lektur, a potem zderzam swoją perspektywę laiczki z wiedzą i zajawą rozmówcy/rozmówczyni.
Cykl rozpoczyna rozmowa z drem Bartoszem Wójcikiem o literaturze karaibskiej, z zoomem na Jamajkę. Rozmawiamy o tym,
dlaczego literatury nie da się o...2022-08-171h 49
Lit Local PodcastApplying for Live Events with Desiree Brown and Amy RiversWelcome to the Indie Writer Podcast where we talk about all things writing and indie publishing. Today we are excited to talk about Applying for Live Events with Amy Rivers and Desiree Brown!
Amy Rivers is an award-winning self-published author and the Director of Northern Colorado Writers. She is the Indie Author Project’s 2021 Indie Author of the Year. In addition to the novels she publishes under her imprint Compathy Press, she's been published in several anthologies including Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inspiration for Nurses, and was a regular contributor to Novelty Bride Magazine and ESME.com...2022-03-2955 min
Friends of Shakespeare and Company read Ulysses by James JoycePages 45 - 55 │ Proteus, part I │ Read by Ishion HutchinsonPages 45 - 55 │Proteus, part I│Read by Ishion HutchinsonIshion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. Buy his collection Far District here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/I/9780571369201/far-districtRead his poem Little Music here: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/01/little-music-ishion-hutchinson/Find out more about Ishion Hutchinson here: www.ishionhutchinson.comFollow him on Instagram here: @portie_urchin*SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURESAll episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if yo...2022-02-0728 minPoem-a-DayIshion Hutchinson: "The Mud Sermon"Recorded by Ishion Hutchinson for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 20, 2021. www.poets.org2021-12-2003 min
so...poetry?s5ep5 - the fold in the paperin which Andrea Carter Brown and i talk engendering empathy, the moments our lives are folded around, and BIRDS!!!
where to find Andrea:
website - andreacarterbrown.com
September 12 - wordworksbooks.org/product/september-12
other things referenced:
Monda Van Duyn - poetryfoundation.org/poets/mona-van-duyn
Robert Haas - poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-hass
Mary Jo Salter - poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-jo-salter
Brian Turner - poetryfoundation.org/poets/brian-turner
Ishion Hutchinson - poetryfoundation.org/poets/ishion-hutchinson
BIRDS referenced:
Oystercatcher - audubon.org/field-guide/bird/american-oystercatcher
Long-billed Curlew - audubon.org/field-guide/bird/long-billed-curlew
Allen's Hummingbird - audubon.org/field-guide/bird/allens-hummingbird
Gray Catbird...2021-10-022h 34
Baffling Combustions48. Spring - Ishion HutchinsonIn this fast-paced, semi-spontaneous, testy analysis, we examine the poem "Spring" by Ishion Hutchinson, published in the June 7th, 2021 edition of the New Yorker magazine. This session includes Hutchinson reading his work, courtesy of the magazine, the link to which (and its text) is here:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/07/spring2021-06-1253 min
For PosterityS2/ Ep5: We’re Always Home: A Conversation with Ishion HutchinsonMy guest for this episode is the one and only poet-professor-Portlander, Ishion Hutchinson. We recorded this conversation via video conferencing as we each lazed in our yards, feeling tethered by the hammock of history and comforted by thoughts of home. Hear macaws and other birds endemic to Jamaica, sing meaningfully as a kind of soundtrack to our chat. Hear how our audio sometimes sizzles and our voices sometimes glitch, and think of how the digital creates a kind of dub-like recording. Think of sound and imagination as you listen to this one. Think of home, homecoming, and returns. Think of...2020-10-111h 00
American Poets, Poetas Norteamericanos.Ishion Hutchinson."Huracán" es el poema que les ofrecemos en la voz de Ishion Hutchinson, Jamaica, 1983. Una grabación que le hiciéramos al poeta en Miami Book Fair 2016.
En nuestro site puedes leer la única versión que existe de este poema en español Actualmente Ishion Hutchinson enseña en la Universidad de Cornell y vive en NY.2020-07-0101 min
FaberBooksIshion Hutchinson reads Marina by T.S. EliotIshion Hutchinson reads an extract of Marina by T.S Eliot. Hear the whole poem here: #ShareAPoem2020-05-0702 min
The Virtual Memories ShowCOVID Check-In with Jane BordenEssayist and journalist (and one of my very first pod-guests!) Jane Borden checks in from LA. We talk about memoir-metamorphosis, her recent Vanity Fair piece on the art of making art during a plague, the solace of deep time, working for Tom Wolfe, the Ishion Hutchinson essay that recently blew her mind, the intertwining of arts criticism and memoir, whether it's healthy to try to interpret the pandemic through metaphor, rereading her Joseph Campbell books and reflecting on her marginalia from her 20s, and more. Follow Jane on Twitter • Listen to our full-length podcast • More info at our site • Find a...2020-04-1839 min
The Harper’s PodcastDreams of StoneFive years ago, Ishion Hutchinson went searching for paradise in the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela, a small town in northern Ethiopia. The multilevel houses of worship, carved out of the rocky ground, are attributed to King Lalibela, who set out to create a New Jerusalem during his reign. The site is a marvel for even the most jaded fan of history and architecture, but Hutchinson, who was raised in a Rastafarian family in Jamaica, wasn’t sure what he would encounter there. Ethiopia occupied a unique place in Hutchinson’s childhood imagination: a central tenet of Rasta is the belief that...2020-04-0926 min
New Caribbean VoicesEpisode 3This special extended episode features a round-up by Jeremy Poynting of some of the important books published by Peepal Tree Press in the last decade, Malika Booker in conversation with writer Anton Nimblett, poetry from Unwritten: Caribbean Poems After the First World War edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf, and read by Tanya Shirley, Ishion Hutchinson, Vladimir Lucien and Malika Booker herself, plus an exclusive interview with 2020 T.S. Eliot prize-winner Roger Robinson!The New Caribbean Voices podcast celebrates the best of Caribbean and Black British literature and culture. Produced by Melody Triumph for Peepal Tree Press. Artwork featured 'Rainbirds' is...2020-03-021h 40
Podcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival59. Ishion Hutchinson and Jay Bernard: Poetry Reading and conversationHosted by Sandeep Parmar ‘Exquisite’ (New Yorker), ‘breathtaking’ (Los Angeles Times), ‘baroque and moon-lit’ (Boston Globe) – House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers in the Americas, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and being widely applauded in ‘books of the year’. Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He makes a rare...
The post 59. Ishion Hutchinson and Jay Bernard: Poetry Reading and conversation appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 min
The VerbUnwrittenTo mark 100 years since the end of the First World War, The Verb presents ‘Unwritten’, a special edition of the programme telling the neglected stories of those who fought in the British West Indian Regiment, and the stories of those they left behind, through a series of new poems. 15,600 men from the Caribbean served everywhere from Messines to Egypt, Passchendaele to Palestine – and many received medals for their bravery. However, as the poet Karen McCarthy Woolf comments, ‘The wartime stories of these Caribbean servicemen were largely unheard at the time and have remained so ever since…We know many...2018-11-0959 min
Faber Poetry PodcastEpisode 6: Edward Doegar & Ishion HutchinsonIn the final episode of our first series, Rachael and Jack are joined in the studio by Edward Doegar and Ishion Hutchinson, who discuss the value of a 'fake' talisman and the violence and beauty that can be found in a game of marbles.
Audio postcards & additional poems featured in this episode
‘Somewhere There’s a Nothing I’m a Part Of’ written and read by Elaine Kahn.
‘The Stages of Harriet’ written and read by Sara Peters.
‘War the War’ written and read by Jack Underwood.
‘Beef Cubes’ written and read by...2018-07-3041 min
Soul MusicPrelude a l'Apres Midi d'un Faune by DebussyClaude Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun speaks to artists of different kinds. Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson recalls hearing it through an open window in Kingston Jamaica and being mesmerised by its beauty, but not knowing what it was, setting off on a quest to find out and to write a poem that captured his feelings about the piece. Babak Kazemi was training to be a doctor in his home city of Tehran when he heard it for the first time. The piece changed his life and led him to abandon his medical...2018-04-1827 min
The Poetry SocietyEmily Berry talks to Ishion Hutchinson“Poetry is an inner armour available to anyone,” says the celebrated Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson in this latest in The Poetry Review podcast series. In conversation with Review Editor Emily Berry, Hutchinson talks about his influences (citing Donne, Eliot and George Seferis) and his poetics; about homesickness, travel and "returning responsibly". Hutchinson also reads his poems, ‘West Ride Out’ and ‘Travel Axe’, both first published in The Poetry Review. To connect with more poetry, visit poetrysociety.org.uk2017-11-2233 min
FaberBooksMoved by the Beauty Of TreesThe poet Ishion Hutchinson reads 'Moved by The Beauty Of Trees', which features in his collection, 'House of Lords and Commons' (Faber & Faber 2017).2017-11-0700 min
FaberBooksThe Lords and Commons Of SummerIshion Hutchinson reads his poem 'The Lords and Commons of Summer' taken from his new collection 'House of Lords and Commons' (published by Faber & Faber 02.11.2017)
https://www.faber.co.uk/shop/poetry/9780571340149-house-of-lords-and-commons.html2017-11-0704 min
FaberBooksAfter The Hurricane read by Ishion HutchinsonThe award-winning poet Ishion Hutchinson reads his poem, 'After the Hurricane' from his collection 'House of Lords and Commons.'
See: www.faber.co.uk/shop/poetry/9780571340149-house-of-lords-and-commons.html2017-11-0701 min
Start the WeekHeart of Darkness: Conrad and OrwellAndrew Marr discusses the work of Joseph Conrad with his biographer Maya Jasanoff. Conrad wrote about the underbelly of colonialism, terrorism, immigration and isolation and Jasanoff looks at the turn of the twentieth century through the lens of his life and work. While Conrad's Nostromo reflected the changing world order with the emerging dominance of the US and global capitalism, the FT columnist Gideon Rachman looks at the decline of the West amidst the growing power of the East, as well as reflecting on Britain's imperial amnesia. A young George Orwell was also part of the British colonial system...2017-11-0642 min
so...poetry?season 2 episode 14 - the apocalypse spectrumin which Alyse Richmond and i gush about each other's poetry, awkwardness in meeting your idols, and the possibility of SHIFTING INTERNAL LANDSCAPES WHAT THE FUCK
twitter: @AlyseRichmond
other things referenced:
Blue Mornings by Alyse Richmond - https://squareup.com/store/akinoga-press/item/blue-mornings
possessed by space by ME (wooo) - https://squareup.com/store/akinoga-press/item/possessed-by-space
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/45236
UCB classes - https://newyork.ucbtrainingcenter.com/course/open
https://losangeles.ucbtrainingcenter.com/course/open
Loneliest Road in America fellowship - http://www.atlasobscura...2017-05-141h 57
Enoch Pratt Free Library PodcastValzhyna Mort & Ishion HutchinsonValzhyna Mort was born in Minsk, Belarus, and moved to the United States in 2005. She is the author of Factory of Tears and Collected Body. Most recently, she has received the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry magazine and the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship. She teaches at the University of Baltimore. The Irish Times has called her a "risen star of the international poetry world."Read a poem by Valzhyna Mort.Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. His first collection, Far District: Poems, won the 2011 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and was hailed...2012-01-121h 21