FAMILIAR PORTRAITS...

Readers, writers and performers for Bim Litfest 2014 on books that grab them, favourite authors, and showing words love...

“Favourite book: James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I loved the characters singing all those wonderful ballads in the street, and Stephen Dedalus’ explorations of faith or disbelief in that society, which always felt like one very similar to mine.” 

• Vladimir Lucien launches his debut poetry collection Sounding Ground (Peepal Tree) at the Bim LitFest, Friday, May 16.