Rachel Long
Book Shambles
On this episode Robin and Josie are joined by the poet Rachel Long whose debut book My Darling From the Lions has just been released. They chat about shifting from writing bad novels to good poetry, being expected to be an expert on your entire gender and race and discovering poetry on a park bench during a lunch break… Also Robin introduced Josie to some girl’s ghost story annuals from the 70s.
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Reading List
Books recommended this week include:
My Darling From the Lions by Rachel Long
The work of Michael Rosen
The work of Sylvia Plath
The poetry of Yevgeny Yevtushenko
The New Poetry edited by Al Alvarez
Love Poems by Brian Patten
The Mersey Sound by Adrian Henri, Brian Patten, and Roger McGough
The work of John Cooper Clarke
Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth by Warsan Shire
The Misty Annuals
The Bunty for Girls Annuals
The work of Caroline Bird
While I Yet Live by Gboyega Odubanjo
Doing the Most with the Least by Momtaza Mehri
Finding Home by Cecilia Knapp
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