Jennifer Williams
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Scottish Poetry Library Podcast · From the Archive: Far Off Places. October 2014 · 11 Jan 2026
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Hello, my name is Jennifer Williams and I'm the program manager at the Scottish Poetry Library.
I have a special treat for you today because rather than me conducting this podcast interview, I have a guest interviewer here with me.
who is my friend Jessica Johannesson Gaetan, my colleague at the library and a wonderful writer herself, also expert in translation, the art of translation, and has been helping me out here at the library by putting together one of our events in the autumn program.
And it's a very special event.
And I think actually I'm going to let her tell you all about it and tell you why we've got these marvelous people here with us today.
The international travel, the glamorous houses.
That's it.
I do like those things.
Hello, this is Jennifer Williams, Programme Manager at the Scottish Poetry Library, and it is my pleasure to be sitting in the library with
Jem Rolls.
Jem Rolls is someone who I feel like has been a great teacher for me in many ways because he's one of the first poets and at the time and he still is he was very much also a poetry promoter and someone putting on poetry events when I first came to Edinburgh in 2001 and he was very encouraging and supportive to me and gave me some of the first platforms for reading my own poems in public and
I feel like helped teach me a lot about how to put on poetry events and promote them and ran a wonderful festival years ago in Edinburgh.
The Edinburgh Rush.
And that involved all sorts of spoken word events that were on in Edinburgh at the time.
And Jem was also running first with Anita Govan and then with Jenny and Lindsay.
Oh, I forgot about the Rob G bit.
Yes.
General's is also known as the godfather of, what is it, the godfather of spoken word?
You know, I remember talking to you over the years and something that always struck me about your belief or philosophy in what you did and in performance was that
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