Polly Paulusma is to release a new album of traditional folk songs from the British Isles, songs which inspired the writer Angela Carter.

Alongside her music-making activities, Paulusma is a PhD student  at UEA (University of East Anglia) in Norwich where she is researching how being a folk singer influenced the writer Angela Carter. Part of her research has involved the uncovering of a previously-unknown recording of Carter singing in a folk club in the 1960s, and her work is examining how musical features interfere with Carter’s idiosyncratic writing style.

This album has been borne of that work; by singing and performing the songs herself, Paulusma hopes to develop a richer understanding of how these songs worked on Carter’s imagination from the inside out.