Our three new collections from Pavilion Poetry are now available: Standing in the Forest of Being Alive by Katie Farris, Local Interest by Emily Hasler, and Nocturne by Jodie Hollander! Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as the narrator is diagnosed and treated for breast cancer … Continue reading
Local Interest: An Interview with Emily Hasler
Each year our Pavilion Poetry students assist with the publishing of our new collections, dedicating their time to an individual poet. In this interview, Melissa Thomas talks with author Emily Hasler about her new collection, Local Interest (Pavilion Poetry, 2023). What inspired your new collection Local Interest? The title comes from those sections of libraries, which I’ve … Continue reading
Slavery and arms: Britain and America’s Civil War – In Conversation with Jim Powell & Meredith Wheeler
Before its civil war, America supplied 80 per cent of the raw material for Britain’s largest industry, the cotton trade. During the war, this fell to almost zero. Jim Powell’s new book Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War examines what happened to this trade and to the Liverpool cotton market, its beneficiaries and … Continue reading
How British cotton affected America’s Civil War – In Conversation with Jim Powell & Meredith Wheeler
Before its civil war, America supplied 80 per cent of the raw material for Britain’s largest industry, the cotton trade. During the war, this fell to almost zero. Jim Powell’s new book Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War examines what happened to this trade and to the Liverpool cotton market, its beneficiaries and … Continue reading
Liverpool and the American Civil War – In Conversation with Jim Powell & Meredith Wheeler
Before its civil war, America supplied 80 per cent of the raw material for Britain’s largest industry, the cotton trade. During the war, this fell to almost zero. Jim Powell’s new book Losing the Thread: Cotton, Liverpool and the American Civil War examines what happened to this trade and to the Liverpool cotton market, its beneficiaries and … Continue reading
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