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Hello and welcome to Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast.

This week I want to look at a collection which came out in 2022.

It is called Meat Lovers and it is by the poet Rebecca Hawks.

Man, it's a fantastic collection.

I find it exhilarating to read and even to think about.

Even the artwork on the book is gorgeous. And that was also done by Rebecca Hawke. She's one of those,

one of those people with more than one major talent. Anyway, the book is split into two sections, meat and lovers,

taken obviously from the title meat lovers.

And they are separate sections,

but there's plenty of meat in the lovers section and plenty of lovers and potential lovers in the meat.

Here's a quote from Rebecca Hawkes,

which I think is a fair summary of the experience of reading the meat lovers collection.

I like Losh OTT poetry, as in over the top.

I like Losh OTT poetry where it is permissible to load up the adjectives just because

they're delicious.

What better reason than that.

And she really does.

Oh man, the language is so rich and juicy and full of sugary, sweet frighteningness.

There's one here.

There's a stuff about her childhood in the book,

and there's one of a lost thing after an apple lolly in a pick and mix.

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