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Aloneness | Liberty - with Leontia Flynn


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All aboard!  Planet Poetry is going to rattle you into a Belfast haunted by absence. Here you'll meet Leontia Flynn and discover how the upheavals of Brexit and the pandemic have been echoed by  ruptures and aloneness in her own life. Her magnificent response is the spare and intensely-moving collection Taking Liberties from Cape.

Meanwhile Peter has been reading I will Not Fold These Maps  by the Bidoon (stateless) poet Mona Kareem, whose refreshingly direct style adds a touch of surrealism to reflect the absurdity of not being a citizen of the country you were born in.  Then Robin (thanks to the marginalian) is enchanted by the astronomer poet Rebecca Elson and her collection A Responsibility to Awe from Carcanet Classic. Sampling a  poetry that places an awareness of the poet's own mortality against a backdrop of stars. 

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