Literary Friction - Poetry With Hannah Sullivan

Literary Friction

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4.9 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In the words of celebrated Canadian poet Anne Carson, “if prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it”. Whether you’re into Frank O’Hara or Emily Dickinson, Audre Lorde or e. e. cummings, Walt Whitman or Sylvia Plath, we’ve got something for you in this poetry-themed show. Our guest is poet and academic Hannah Sullivan, who joined us to talk about her evocative debut collection, Three Poems, which explores the intimacies and intricacies of life, from sex and love and being young in New York, to the birth of a son, and the death of a father. So, come get lyrical with us and we might even drop some rhyming couplets over the next hour on Literary Friction. Email us: litfriction@gmail.com Tweet us and find us on Instagram: @litfriction Recommendations on the theme, Poetry: Octavia: Witch by Rebecca Tamás http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2019/01/rebecca-tamas/ Carrie: Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara https://groveatlantic.com/book/meditations-in-an-emergency/ General Recommendations: Octavia: My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/my-sister-the-serial-killer/ Carrie: Terrific Mother by Lorrie Moore https://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/7029/s/9780571351831-terrific-mother/ Hannah: A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford https://www.dauntbooks.co.uk/product/book/a-compass-error/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Literary Fiction on NTS.
0:09.7	I'm Carrie Plitt, here as always with my co-host Octavia Bright.
0:12.7	Hi, Octavia.
0:13.6	Hi, Carrie.
0:14.7	How are you doing today?
0:15.8	I'm very tired.
0:17.3	Oh, God.
0:17.8	But I'm okay.
0:18.6	No, I'm just, I'm living with my goddaughter who I adore, but she's
0:21.5	nitty too, and she worked us all up very early yesterday morning, and I still haven't quite
0:26.5	recovered, and I just want to say, parents, I don't know how you do it, you're amazing.
0:30.8	That is, um, cool. No, sorry, I meant to be more sympathetic. Yeah, I am also feeling a bit tired because I took the train in from Oxford early this morning.
0:41.4	Oh, girl.
0:41.8	Which listeners may be able to tell from the even more gravelly tone of my voice.
0:47.3	Anyway, really excited to be here today because today we're bringing you a show celebrating poetry.
0:53.5	Yeah, one of my favorite things in the world. Yeah, not, I mean, a thing I like, but a thing that I've really been wanting to do for a while on the show, haven't we? Yeah. You've been talking about it for ages. So, yeah, it's really exciting. It is a pretty huge theme, so it's something we'll hopefully be coming back to over time as we talk to different
1:10.9	poets. But let's kick things off with words from the celebrated Canadian poet and Carson,
1:16.2	who says, if prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it. I love that.
1:22.9	Yeah, me too. So whether you're into Frank O'Hara or Emily Dickinson, Audra Lord or E. Cummings,
1:29.1	Walt Whitman or Sylvia Plath, we've got something for you. Joining us today is Hannah Sullivan,
1:34.3	who has recently published her debut collection of poetry, Three Poems. I guess you don't have
1:39.0	to say poetry when it's called Three Poems. Anyway, Octavia, can you tell our listeners a bit more
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