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The Book Club

By: The Spectator
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  • Literary interviews and discussions on the latest releases in the world of publishing, from poetry through to physics. Presented by Sam Leith.
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  • Roger McGough: Collected Poems 1959-2024

    Roger McGough: Collected Poems 1959-2024
    Jul 17 2024
    My guest in this week's Book Club podcast is Roger McGough, whose new The Collected Poems: 1959-2024 anthologises a poetic career 65 years long and counting. Roger tells me about revisiting his old work and making it new, why he's 'not being serious' about the future of Poetry Please, and how he narrowly missed being on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.
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    35 mins
  • Michael Nott: Thom Gunn's Cool Queer Life

    Michael Nott: Thom Gunn's Cool Queer Life
    Jul 10 2024
    My guest on this week's Book Club podcast is Michael Nott, author of the new biography Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life. He tells me about the poet's early trauma, his transatlantic identity, his unconventional family and his compartmentalised life, part teaching and writing, part sex, drugs and rock and roll.
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    29 mins
  • Kathleen Jamie: Cairn

    Kathleen Jamie: Cairn
    Jul 3 2024
    In her new book Cairn, the Scots poet Kathleen Jamie sets a capstone of sorts on her trilogy of short prose collections Findings, Surfacing and Sightlines. She joins Sam on this week’s Book Club podcast to talk about why she hesitates to call herself a nature writer, how prose found her late in life, and why whale-watching isn’t what it used to be.

    Produced by Patrick Gibbons.
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    24 mins
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