I kind of feel that I'm hitting some pinacle of poetry here with this weeks podcast - two of the most respected poets on the London scene on the same show - if you were going to see these two live, tickets would have sold out long ago!
From last weeks interview with Roddy, we have two poems of his from Super Try Again, his latest book from Donut Press ( buy his book here ).
Roddy's delivery is smooth, musical and like some sort of Scottish Siren, pulling you in to crash on his rocks.
Complementing Roddy's performance is Annie Freud, her first collection out last year, Annie reads mostly from The Best Man That Ever Was ( available from Picador here ) and finishes the set with the title poem from her book - what I love most about Annie's performance is the detail and preamble for each of her poems - the listener is brought right in to her life, into the titbits and ephemera of Annie's world. My favourite image is the story Annie tells of falling asleep on an atlas of the world - Annie is an Atlas of poetry, supporting the sky above us, all I can say is listen with pleasure.
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