Interviews with poets

Interviewing poets is important for gaining insight into their creative process, inspirations, and the deeper meanings behind their work. By engaging in conversations with poets, we have the opportunity to understand the motivations and intentions that drive their writing, offering readers a richer experience when engaging with their poetry. Additionally, interviews provide a platform for poets to share their perspectives on societal issues, personal experiences, and cultural influences, allowing for a deeper understanding of the context in which their poetry is created. Through interviews, poets can also offer advice and guidance to aspiring writers, further enriching the literary community.

Richard Berengarten

Richard Berengarten is an English poet. Having lived in Italy, Greece, the US and the former Yugoslavia, his perspectives as a poet combine English, French, Mediterranean, Jewish, Slavic, American and Oriental influences.

Lucy Hamilton

Lucy Hamilton grew up in Norfolk with her French mother and English father, the youngest of six children including a twin sister. She has enjoyed a career in teaching, including Chinese students for seven years at Ashford School, Kent.
 
She co-edited Long Poem Magazine from 2008 to 2018. Since 2015 she has worked for Cam Rivers Publishing and has enjoyed several work-related visits to China. She has published a pamphlet Sonnets for my Mother, and two collections of prose poems: Stalker, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; and Of Heads & Hearts.

Yang Ke

Yang Ke was born in Guangxi province in 1957. He is a renowned Chinese poet who is now the Vice President of the Writers' Association of Guangdong province and a state first rate writer and editor. He is amongst the third generation of China’s powerful poets and one of the representative poets of folk writings. A large number of his works including poems, reviews, essays and novels are published in many of China’s most influential journals such as People’s Literature, Shi Kan, and Chinese Writers, and also many folk journals, overseas journals or Internet journals such as They, Fei Fei, and Yi Hang.