Common Room

Emerging from Silence

Georgia Gildea’s debut poetry pamphlet bed is out now with V. Press. Georgia chats with Charlotte about how she worked in silence.

Why be Quiet?

Maxine Linnell talks with Charlotte about her new blog: mapping her experience of dementia.

On Wanting for Nothing

Suzanne Conway shares a poem, and talks with Charlotte about her love for running, and for writing, and what qualities the two share.

On Writing Our Selves

Celia Hunt discusses with Charlotte the importance of looseness and layering, and ‘imagined readers’ and making room in our writing.

Expressing an Essence

Elizabeth Chadwick Pywell shares a poem and chats with Charlotte about writing into a difficult encounter.

Writing Wrongs

Marilyn Ricci shares a poem from her new sequence, and chats with Charlotte about metaphor and trauma.

What Didn’t Happen

For this Understory Conversation, Lorna Dowell invites guest Lydia Fulleylove to talk about a poem from her new book.

On Making What We Need

Natalie Shaw and Charlotte chat around weaving poems as ‘little breathing devices’.

On Hugeness

For this Understory Conversation, Georgia Gildea and Charlotte compare notes on hugeness, need and containment.

An Honest Map

Hilary Menos shares a poem and chats to Charlotte about the importance of craft and remaking the world.