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Introducing The Black Flamingo
Dean describes his novel in verse, The Black Flamingo.
  1. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  2. Move it
    00:51
    Move it
  3. My dad knows everything
    04:26
    My dad knows everything
  4. Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
    05:50
    Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
  5. The noise!
    03:52
    The noise!
  6. The space
    01:18
    The space
  7. What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
    03:19
    What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
  8. Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
    04:33
    Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
  9. Hand on the Bridge
    02:28
    Hand on the Bridge
  10. Questions from schools
    05:40
    Questions from schools
  11. Wordplay
    14:05
    Wordplay
  12. Crackledawn
    02:08
    Crackledawn
  13. Chocolate Cake
    07:56
    Chocolate Cake
  14. Themes of The Infinite
    01:29
    Themes of The Infinite
  15. Kiran’s writing process
    05:08
    Kiran’s writing process
  16. Health and Medicine
    04:36
    Health and Medicine
  17. Stories are people
    01:59
    Stories are people
  18. Toxic Relationships
    04:42
    Toxic Relationships
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