Episode Twelve Credits:

Producer: Sydney Walter

Writers:

Dr. April Elisabeth Pawar: April Pawar is the Founder of the Oxford Writers’ House. She graduated from St. Anne’s College, Oxford in 2016 with a DPhil in English Literature. She writes fiction, essays, and poetry.

Adam O’Roirdon: Adam O’Riordan is a British poet and writer known for his lyrical precision and intellectual depth. Born in Manchester in 1982, he studied at Oxford and later under Andrew Motion at Royal Holloway. His debut poetry collection In the Flesh won the Somerset Maugham Award, followed by A Herring Famine and the short story collection The Burning Ground. He is also the author of the novel The Falling Thread. O’Riordan teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University and has served as Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust.

Lavinia Greenlaw: Lavinia Greenlaw is a British poet, novelist, and arts writer known for her precise, luminous language and deep engagement with themes of perception, memory, science, and art. Born in London in 1962, she has published several acclaimed poetry collections, including Night Photograph, A Double Sorrow, and The Casual Perfect. Greenlaw’s work often explores the intersections between the sensory world and intellectual inquiry, drawing on her interests in music, optics, and medical history. In addition to poetry, she has written novels, libretti, and radio dramas, and has held teaching and research posts at institutions such as Goldsmiths and the Royal Society of Literature.

Special Thanks To:

The Poetry Archive