“A month into the Dialect mentoring programme and my writing practice has been turned upside down. No, really. It has. And in a good way.” In her first blog for Dialect, Audrey Healey writes about being mentored by novelist Melanie Golding.

Alice Oswald has described her work as a listening, a way of forcing a poem open to what lies bodily beyond it. In the first poem for his Dialect x Waterland #residency, Alun Hughes shares the result of a form of listening, writing in and about place.

‘What if nothing came, what if no words appeared on the page, what if I couldn’t conjure up a sense of place?’ Hannah Persaud, our Dialect x Waterland writer in residence for February, writes about the experience of being a locked-down digital resident.

Something Purple, a radio play by Steve Connoly