Interview with Nicola Shulman

June 29, 2012 by Natalie

I am delighted to share with you my interview with Nicola Shulman, author of Graven with Diamonds, a book about Thomas Wyatt.

Book Blurb

In this thrillingly entertaining book, Nicola Shulman interweaves the bloody events of Henry VIII’s reign with the story of English love poetry and the life of its first master, Henry’s most glamorous and enigmatic subject: Sir Thomas Wyatt.

Courtier, spy, wit, lover of Anne Boleyn and favourite of both Henry and his sinister minister Thomas Cromwell, the brilliant Wyatt was admired and envied in equal measure. His love poetry began as risqué entertainment for ambitious men and women at the slippery top of the court. But when the axe began to fall and Henry’s laws made his subjects fall silent in terror, Wyatt’s poetic skills became a way to survive.

I was at Nicola Shulman’s talk at the Boleyn Festival Blickling in May and must say that it was a highlight for me. I certainly learnt a lot and came home enthused and raring to dive into Shulman’s work and Wyatt’s poetry.

And so another visit to Amazon was needed…