Rachael Allen & Lucy Mercer: God Complex
<p>‘Here is a wasteland / of parched aesthetics / patched up with modern tubes’ – Rachael Allen’s long-awaited second collection,&nbsp;<em>God Complex</em>, is a long narrative poem describing the breakdown of a relationship against a backdrop of environmental degradation and toxicity. In this episode, she reads from the collection and was joined in conversation with the poet Lucy Mercer, whose first collection is&nbsp;<em>Emblem</em>&nbsp;(Prototype, 2022).</p><br><p>Buy <em>God Complex</em>: <a href="https://lrb.me/godcomplexpod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lrb.me/godcomplexpod</a></p><p>Find more events at the Bookshop: <a href="https://lrb.me/eventspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lrb.me/eventspod</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Show Notes
‘Here is a wasteland / of parched aesthetics / patched up with modern tubes’ – Rachael Allen’s long-awaited second collection, God Complex, is a long narrative poem describing the breakdown of a relationship against a backdrop of environmental degradation and toxicity. In this episode, she reads from the collection and was joined in conversation with the poet Lucy Mercer, whose first collection is Emblem (Prototype, 2022).
Buy God Complex: lrb.me/godcomplexpod
Find more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspod
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