Salena Godden
Season 1, Episode 5It’s poetry week on Book Shambles as Robin and Josie are joined by poet Salena Godden to talk about everything from Lenny Bruce and Elizabeth Smart to the virtues of writing in your books. In pen.
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Reading List
Salena recommends:
The work of Nick Cave
The work of Leonard Cohen
The work of PJ Harvey
My Tits are More Feminist Than Your Tits by Salena Godden
Springfield Road by Salena Godden
Lenny: The Real Story of Lenny Bruce by Valerie Smith
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict by William S. Burroughs
Boy Wonder by James Robert Baker
The Things You Do by Deborah Delano
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
Everything Crash by Tim Wells
The Eejit Pit by Jenny Lindsay
The Woman Who Was Not There by Joelle Taylor
Robin recommends:
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce
Queer by William S. Burroughs
Off the Road by Carolyn Cassady
Angry Woman edited by Vivian Vale
The Joke’s On Us by Morwenna Banks and Amanda Swift
Fun Home by Alison Bechtel
All the Devils Are Here by David Seabrook
The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson
The Robin Williams Scrapbook by Stephen Spignesi
Josie recommends:
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
The work of Derrick C. Brown
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