Planet Poetry

Eels | Elements - with Janet Sutherland

January 27, 2022 Janet Sutherland, Robin Houghton & Peter Kenny Season 2 Episode 6
Planet Poetry
Eels | Elements - with Janet Sutherland
Show Notes

Welcome home! Now slip off your raincoat and settle down in the flickering firelight. 

Listening to Janet Sutherland will suggest summer snakes hissing in the hay, as you explore the rural upbringing that has shaped the quietly-magnificent world of her four Shearsman Books collections: Burning the Heartwood, Hangman’s Acre, Bone Monkey and Home Farm.

Meanwhile, your pals Robin and Peter begin 2022 eyeing a patriarchal statue in a beautiful poem by  Eavan Boland from her New Collected Poems from Carcanet . And devouring  C+nto and othered poems by Joelle Taylor to find it an elegiac, barnstorming celebration - and a just winner of the T.S. Eliot prize too. 

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