In this section you will find interviews conducted by Heal members with writers, artists and scholars working on the themes of illness and health, both human and planetary, across geographies and historical periods. These conversations address the affective, aesthetic, environmental and experiential dimensions of illness and shed new light on the creative processes of the interviewees.

Leanne O’Sullivan

Leanne O’Sullivan talks to Luz Mar González-Arias about illness, health, brain damage, nature, care and love, and what poetry has to do with it. University of Oviedo, 29 Nov. 2018.

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[Citation]:
González-Arias, Luz Mar: “In Conversation with Leanne O’Sullivan”. Servicio de Medios Audiovisuales de la Universidad de Oviedo, 2018.

Celia de Fréine

Celia de Fréine talks to Luz Mar González-Arias about the first-wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, lockdown, the Hepatitis C Scandal in Ireland and In Search of a Horizon, her latest collection of poetry. University of Oviedo, 29 Nov. 2022.

[Citation]:
González-Arias, Luz Mar: “Lockdown Poetry. In Conversation with Celia de Fréine”. Servicio de Medios Audiovisuales de la Universidad de Oviedo, 2022.