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Louise Bennett-Coverley

Louise Bennett-Coverley

Jamaican poet

Sep 1, 2026

10:58
these situations.
11:00
But I'm not religious.
11:02
But I do allow myself some thoughts about the afterlife.
11:07
So one thing that I have with a couple of my bereaved mother friends is... is we like to think that they all have a flat together.
11:16
I like that.
11:17
So they all have a flat.
11:18
And when Taylor Hawkins from Foo Fighters tragically died, me and my husband were like, well, he's moved in upstairs.
12:22
about.
36:45
We should use that.
36:45
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
36:46
It's an expression that my boss in Germany used to use, which I thought was a really good one.
36:51
Oh, yeah, I get it now.
36:53
Yeah, so I was the Joker.
36:55
And...
36:57
That meant that I did so many rehearsals in different places that they actually gave the third cast to this student who'd been doing so many rehearsals, which is fine.

14 MINS LATER

51:31
I kind of love it.
2:56
Can you tell me a little bit more about the fabric, the way you work in textiles?
3:01
Yeah, so my background is more in clothes making, really.
3:05
I'm a pattern cutter, clothes maker who... later got more interested in constructing textiles and surface application, and I feel like this is really a marriage of all of that experience.
3:15
It's a three-paneled screen where the uprights are in birch plywood, the hinges, satisfyingly, are made from felts, so they're kind of soft textile hinges, And then the panels in the middle are made out of white cotton organdy, silk organza, and a slightly denser paneled fabric, which is actually an old curtain from my parents' home in London.
3:36
And that has some relevance.
3:38
It's called Leith to Silver Nails because that is the journey that my grandmother Nessie took effectively in her lifetime.
3:44
She passed away midway through last year.

8 MINS LATER

12:04
stick to a pavement but to create and there's some wonderful ones at Arthur's Seat and across Holyrood and they are tracks we're like sheep aren't we and tell me about where

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