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A celebration of creative projects that never got finished or never made it out into the world.

What’s the value to be found in unfinished and private writing, art, and music? What stops us from finishing things off? And what might happen if the pressure to complete projects disappeared?

I’ll be asking my guests to search their bottom drawers and the abandoned corners of their laptops to rediscover secret and incomplete schemes.

Presented by Em Anderson. If you have an unfinished or unpublished project you’d like to talk about, email me at unfinished.unpublished@gmail.com

My guest this week is David Spittle, who is a poet, filmmaker, and essayist. He was recently commissioned to direct and edit a documentary on Austrian Poetry, called Where is Everyone Austria, which is now available on Youtube. David’s first short film, Light Noise, was funded and broadcast by the BBC and is available to watch on iPlayer. 

His first full collection of poetry is entitled All Particles and Waves and was published by Black Herald Press earlier this year. This followed his poetry pamphlet, entitled B O X, which was released in 2018. 

He has also written three operas and, in 2014, was commissioned by Bergen National Opera to write a song-cycle which has since been performed internationally. 

David runs an online interview series called ‘Light Glyphs’, with poets talking about film and filmmakers talking about poetry, including interviews with Guy Maddin, John Ashbery, Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair. 

David holds a Literature PhD on the poetry of John Ashbery and Surrealism. You can find out more about his work at: www.dspittle.com.