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The Australian novelist and twice winner of the Booker Prize discusses his latest novel ‘Amnesia’ (Faber). Set in the recent past and inspired by real events, the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis known as ‘the dismissal’. Peter explains to Ian how fiction can go places that factual accounts of the past can’t access.

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Performance poet Jasmine Gardosi wants to remind young people that it’s ok not to enjoy clubbing! Instead in her poem. ‘Why Does She Write in Nightclubs?’, she imagines what might happen if a nightclub became a space for creativity. Jasmine is part of the ‘´óÏó´«Ã½ Arts Online Collective’, a group of six young writers and performers brought together to respond in new ways to ´óÏó´«Ã½ content.

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Tahmima Anam’s new novel is ‘The Bones of Grace (Cannongate), the final part of a loose trilogy exploring identity, culture and belonging. Tahmima explains how she writes books that are about one person and a whole culture at the same time, and how it is often the tiny details she notices in the world around her that spark off the ideas for her long, intricate novels.

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Singer songwriter Danielle Lewis sings in both Welsh and English. She performs a beautiful bilingual song ‘Aros’ (I’ll Wait) and her joyful anthem ‘Live, Love, Life’. Danielle is one of the , new welsh musical talent who are being supported by ´óÏó´«Ã½ Wales and the Arts Council Wales.

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You might think of Charles Dickens as a conformist, but Professor John Mullan is currently working on a new book illuminating Dickens’ disobedient ways with language. He’s brought some examples just for The Verb, showing how the masterful writer broke all the rules with his use of cliché, hyperbole and repetition.

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We asked our Verb audience to create a poem with the help of Hereford College of Arts students Max Low, Amy Vale,ÌýSarah Dean and Andrew Graham. They brought along their Letterpress and helped our audience to print out their chosen words, which were then cut out and placed on our ‘Dadaist Washing Line’. To close the show we asked our Verb guests to pick a word at random to create a special Verb Hay Festival Dadaist Poem!

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