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In an interview with The Guardian newspaper in 2013, Irish novelist Colm Tóibín claimed to be ‘against story’. He continued by explaining: ‘I remember [the painter] Howard Hodgkin really disliking being called a colourist. People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I’d run away.’ In this evening’s event, Colm will join Robyn Marsack via Zoom to read from his work and discuss the publication of his first collection of poetry and its relationship to his novel-writing. We’ll find out whether he is equally opposed to the idea of story-telling in poetry!