Una Fogarty, suffering from dementia in a seaside nursing home, would be all alone without her brother Dan, whose epic. Rafaella Covino, the founder and director of Applause for Thought, which offers free and low cost mental health assistance for people working in theatre, and Wabriya King, Associate Drama Therapist at the Bush Theatre, join Tom to discuss the growing need for wellbeing support across the theatre industry. A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue by the Booker-shortlisted author of The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto. Described as this century’s Ulysses, the novel takes the form of a free verse monologue set in Margate in the mind and memories of Dan Fogarty and his sister Una. Laura Robertson, a writer, critic and editor based in the city gives us a rundown of the shortlisted artists announced today at Tate Liverpool: Heather Phillipson, Ingrid Pollard, Veronica Ryan and Sin Wai Kin.Īward-winning and twice Booker shorted listed author of The Butcher Boy Patrick McCabe talks to Tom Sutcliffe about his new novel Poguemahone. A swirling, psychedelic, bleakly funny fugue, Patrick McCabes epic. 'Its a wild, 600-page ballad, a free verse monologue narrated by Dan Fogarty, an Irishman living in England, who is looking after his sister. Now she sits outside in the sun as her memories unspool from Dans mouth and his own role in the tale grows ever stranger and more sinister. Here is how McCabe himself describes Poguemahone. This year’s Turner Prize is returning to Liverpool for the first time in 15 years. Young Unas search for love in a seemingly haunted hippie squat, and the two-timing Scottish stoner poet shell never get over.

After being announced as the recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography award at the Sony World Photography Awards 2022, the Canadian photographer and artist Edward Burtynsky talks to Tom about his 40-year career as a landscape photographer.

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