Seamus Perry, Mark Ford and Joanne O’Leary discuss the life and work of Emily Dickinson—her dashes, death instinct and obliquity.

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Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.

This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in June 2021.

Further reading on Dickinson in the LRB:

Joanne O'Leary: https://lrb.me/olearydickinsonpod

Mark Ford: https://lrb.me/forddickinsonpod

Danny Karlin: https://lrb.me/karlindickinsonpod

Tom Paulin: https://lrb.me/paulindickinsonpod

Susan Eilenberg: https://lrb.me/eilenbergdickinsonpod

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