Vertigo & Ghost: Fiona Benson and Daisy Johnson
Fiona Benson reads from her second collection, Vertigo & Ghost, and discusses it with Daisy Johnson
London Review Bookshop Podcast
February 20, 201955m 54s
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Show Notes
Fiona Benson’s Vertigo & Ghost (Jonathan Cape), the follow-up to her award-winning 2014 debut Bright Travellers, is one of the most hotly-anticipated poetry collections of 2019. Its harrowing central sequence is a retelling of Greek myth, depicting Zeus as a serial rapist; other poems, including the Forward-shortlisted ‘Ruins’, engage with depression, female sexuality and early motherhood. Fiona was in conversation with Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under (Jonathan Cape), shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
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