Podcast #5: James Nash Strolls Through the Tiled Hall

Leeds Lit Fest is delighted to have commissioned ten new and original podcasts for the 2020 Festival funded by Leeds Inspired, part of Leeds City Council.

There are 5 writer profiles. Each of these podcasts features a writer currently working in Leeds and has been recorded on location somewhere in the city. In response to their surroundings in that moment, the featured writers talk about the relationship between their own writing and the idea of place.

James Nash is a writer, journalist and poet.  A long-term resident of Leeds and Bridlington, his third collection of poems, Coma Songs was published in 2003 and reprinted in 2006. He has two poems in Branch-Lines [Enitharmon Press 2007] among fifty contemporary poets, including Seamus Heaney and U. A. Fanthorpe.‘Some Things Matter’,  and ‘Cinema Stories’ were published by Valley Press in 2012 and 2915.

He edited the Candlestick Press pamphlet ‘Fourteen Festive Sonnets’ in 2017. His most recent collection ‘A Bench for Billie Holiday: Seventy Sonnets’ was published in October 2018.