Welcome to Literary Friction.

I'm Carrie Plitt here with my co-host Octavia Bright.

Hi Octavia.

Hi, Carrie.

Having fun today.

Oh yeah.

This month, you'll be hearing a recording of our very first live show with Faber Social at the Social in London earlier this month.

You will indeed and it was a brilliant night.

We had loads of fun. The theme was new voices,

so we featured a whole range of amazing writers, including the debut performances from the Faber New Poets,

Joanna Cannon, Evie Wilde and Ned Bowman, and all of it in front of a sold-out crowd. It was

solid, it was packed, and it was buzzing. First up were some very new voices.

Crisp and Best, Sam Buckin-Wauntz, Rachel Curzon, collectively known as the Faber New Poets.

It was also their first public appearance as Octavia set, and they read from selections of their work.

Now, I have to say, I was a little apprehensive about this.

Whenever I hear poetry reading, I think, oh, God, is this going to be terrible? But it was

so great, so funny, really thoughtful, and they were all amazing readers. So this is a real treat

to be able to play this on the radio.

Cool. So this is a real treat to be able to play this on the radio. Hello. Thank you so much, Martha and Becky, who just explained the whole situation to us.

And it's pretty daunting, and I didn't realize.

But yeah, so you got me at a good time in my life where I'm quite stressed out.

But yeah, so I'm actually going to read, the submissions that we sent for the pamphlet were about 18 months ago or 14 months ago. So I'm going to read, the submissions that we sent for the pamphlet were about 18 months ago or 14 months ago.

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