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LISTEN: Writers on Reading

In this brand new interview episode, poets George Sandifer-Smith and Mari Ellis Dunning join Sophie and Jonathan to discuss their latest collections, Empty Trains (Broken Sleep) and Night Travel at the Right Speed (Infinity Books) from George, and Pearl and Bone (Parthian) from Mari, and how they were able to process their lockdown experiences through their work.

As Mari's editor, I have worked on both her full collections with Parthian, so I recommend you listen for wonderful readings from Pearl and Bone and also for George who talks about not one but two poetry books that he has recently released. 

George was also very kind, giving Windfalls a shout out. He's recently reread the collection in his capacity as the new Reviews Editor at Poetry Wales and a piece about it will appear in the new winter issue. He said: ‘Also, recent things that I’ve read that I loved ... Windfalls was just spectacular, so musical in its use of free verse, and so much colour in it, such a wonderful collection of poems.’

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