Host Omar Sakr talks with guest poet Lachlan Brown. Lachlan grew up in Macquarie Fields in South West Sydney. His first collection, Limited Cities (Giramondo, 2012), was commended for the Mary Gilmore Award. His poems have been shortlisted and highly commended for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Canberra Poetry Prize, the Newcastle Poetry Prize, the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, and the Blake Poetry Prize. He teaches literature at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga.

Lachlan discusses his new poem 'Walking in Isolation', the challenges of writing a sestina and the photos that inspired his work.

Omar reads his new poem, 'The Poems I Couldn't Write This Week' and discusses the compulsion to write and the industry of poetry.