The Burley Fisher Podcast

Featuring Chloe Aridjis, Lucy Ives and Gareth Evans. Hosted by So Mayer, Sam Fisher and Dan Fuller. The Burley Fisher Podcast is a DPF Production.

In this special episode, recorded at the shop, Jeremy Corbyn and Margaret Busby read from and discuss the newly-published poetry anthology Poetry for the Many, edited by Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey. The late and great Benjamin Zephaniah is also remembered, with readings from his poetry given by Pauline Melville. Music by Antony Hurley.

What happens when we’re intimate with ideas? We’re joined by powerhouse thinkers Octavia Bright and Rebecca May Johnson to get physical with the big questions of how we write the messy stuff, and what that writing – as political as it is personal – feels like. Chaired by Peter Scalpello. Postcast hosted by So Mayer, Sam Fisher and Dan Fuller. The Burley Fisher Podcast is a DPF Production.

The weekend's headliner! Isobel Waider and M. John Harrison here in discourse upon the left-field in contemporary literature. Listen here new modes being created, imagined, reinforced. Hosted by So Mayer, Sam Fisher and Dan Fuller. The Burley Fisher Podcast is a DPF Production.

Daisy Lafarge, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, K Patrick and Kandace Siobhan Walker read new work in the resonating space of St Peter’s nave: your chance to hear the best new lyric, exhilarating and compelling. Hosted by So Mayer, Sam Fisher and Dan Fuller. The Burley Fisher Podcast is a DPF Production.

Rolling on with our Festival Series, as we revisit our short story panel with Alice Ash (Paradise Block), Vanessa Onwuemezi (Dark Neighbourhood) and Gemma Seltzer (Ways of Living), chaired by Chris Power (A Lonely Man). Music by Antony Hurley. The Burley Fisher Podcast is a DPF Production.

Coming in hot upon the topic of 'Embodied Writing' are chair Rebecca Liu (The Guardian, Another Gaze), Alice Hattrick (Ill Feelings), Amber Hussain (Replace Me) and Adam Zmiff (Deep Smith). Another barnstormer for the archives.  Music by Anthony Hurley The Burley Fisher Podcast is a DPF Production

Another showcase from BFDay 2021, this time the 'New Fictions, Hybrid Writing' session chaired by Nisha Ramayya, with panelists Mona Arshi (Somebody Loves You, Dear Big Gods) and Juliet Jacques (Trans: A Memoir, Variations). Music by Antony Hurley. The Burley Fisher Podcast is a DPF Production.  

We're back! Re-launching with an archival piece, in which guest host Habib William Kherbek interviews Professor Gerald Horne regarding his books The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century and The Bittersweet Science: Racism, Racketeering, and the Political Economy of Boxing. The Burley Fisher Podcast is a...

In Episode 34 guest host William Kherbek is joined by Professor Steve Keen, to discuss his work 'The New Economics. A manifesto', and the blind spots of the neoclassical orthodoxies that are bringing our society into terminal decline. Burley Fisher's Isolation Station is a DPF Production.

Episode 2 of the Festival Series sees us return to our recordings of BFDay2021, this time for the event of Tice Cin, Gyboyega Odubanjo and Frankie Mirren – chaired by Will Harris. Burley Fisher's Isolation Station is a DPF Production.

This week we showcase a new podcast series behind the team at Burley Fisher Books, celebrating the launch of our very own Antony's Quiet Rooms LP. Radio Lanterne Rising! In this episode Antony covers Nick Drake's stunning Place to Be, and talks a little about his lasting affection for the singer. The lads have a bit of a laugh, and we finish with The End of the Day. Produced by Daniel Fuller The E...

Kicking off our series of BFDay '21 recordings is a big one! The poetry showcase, featuring readings from Anthony Anaxagorou, Will Harris, Daisy Lafarge, Holly Pester, Nisha Ramayya, Peter Scalpello and Stephanie Sy-Quia, along with bonus piano playing also from Will Harris. Produced by Daniel Fuller.

Ooh this is a special one. Today So is joined by Tice Cin to talk about her novel Keeping the House. They talk the great cabbages of Tottenham and diaspora solidarity. Also debuting is Tice's track "Now is the Time". ALSO! Hype BF-Day news from Dan and So, and the usual banter. - Tice Cin (@ticecin) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tottenham. You can find some of her work below: https://www...

Celebrating our Indie Fiction pick for June, So welcomes shop favourite Juliet Jacques to the show to talk about her debut collection "Variations", featuring a scarily accurate impression of Margaret Thatcher. Also some more info on BFDay + antiquarian news!

Today So and Sam are joined by Serpent's Tail's Hannah Westland to talk about being the OG indie press, who shares some exciting news viz. Esi Edugyan, along with celebrations for Independent Bookshop Week. Also the usual banter and nonsense from Dan et. al.    

With apologies, Dan and Sam present Ida Marie Hede's 'Adorable' the indie fiction pick for May. Marie and Sam talk poetic bacteria, while on the margins Dan talks about his night walks and the Lanterne Records kickstarter steams ahead..

 Today Dan is joined by Richard Barnett to discuss his new poetic work Wherever We Are When We Come to the End (Valley Press), a stirring piece about Wittgenstein's time on the frontlines. Meanwhile Sam announces BFDay - the Burley Fisher literary bonanza!

Dan and Ant are joined by Richard Dawson, the troubador by whom they're both a bit mesmerised. Also, Ant shares some very exciting news pertaining to albums, labels and new things all.

Today Sam is joined by Isobel Wohl to discuss her new book, Cold New Climate - Burley Fisher's Indie Fiction subscription for April 2021. Dan and Sam tease coming episodes, and other banal commentary about their everyday lives.

In another celebration of our indie fiction subscription, So is joined by Sara Jaffe, author of Dryland (Cipher Press) to discuss her literary influences. With outrageous deep cuts and odd literary byways. Also, celebrations regarding the BF Team's crowning as Bookshop of the Year (Regional: London ;-D) and plans for re-opening!

Today Sam is joined by Olivia Sudjic, author of Sympathy, Exposure and Asylum Road. In a suspiciously titled new segment for the show. Hear about Olivia's favourite authors and how they informed her practice. Also, cool grandma anecdotes and our patented bookseller banter.

Today Ant and Dan are joined by Andy Sharp to celebrate his almanac of the occult, the English Heretic Collection. They talk the Black Plaque process, the double meaning of histories and the stories that the National Trust doesn't want you to know. Also, Indie + Poetry Subscriptions!

A special one today. Our very own So Mayer celebrates the launch of their phenomenal pocket essay A Nazi Word for a Nazi Thing, an essay on Queer Erasure and a wholesale destruction of the wretched, fascist concept of Entartete. Today's pod is a pomo mashup, featuring red-hot recordings from launch night, coupled with thoughts and reflections to fill in the gaps of films which were broadcast durin...

Today guest host Will Kherbek and Ant are joined by Vincent Bevins, author of the timely and essential Jakarta Method. In the Jakarta Method the former Washington Post journalist sketches a Cold War history of U.S. antagonism against democratic governments of the Third World, and the terrible human cost of the CIA's anti-Communist paranoia.  Also, Sam and Dan chat some rubbish at the beginning and...