Ep. 36 - James Mckay (transcript available)

June 2015. A transcript of this conversation is available to download here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/interview-james-mckay-lpp-transcript-ep-36.pdf David Turner talks to James McKay live at spoken word night, Silence Found a Tongue. James talks about how he began reading poetry to audiences for the first time and how it has led, twenty years later, to his latest solo show The Boy With The Moomin Tattoo. James performed the show over various dates beginning 10/8/2015 at Electric Circus Lizard Lounge at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. James reads five poems: 'In The Beginning' - 00:00:27 'Experience Not Essential' - 00:02:22 'Faggot Hexameters' - 00:08:15 'In The Neolithic Age' by Rudyard Kipling - 00:20:57 'We Are All Grand Babies' - 00:23:48 www.twitter.com/Silent_Tongue www.mckaypoetry.wordpress.com

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A series of discussions, interviews and live recordings with poets from the UK and abroad in which we examine the writing process. Now hosted by Peter deGraft-Johnson a.k.a The Repeat Beat Poet, the series was founded by David Turner in October 2014 in south east London.