This week Miriam interviews poet and professor Joshua Bennett. 

Dr Joshua Bennett is the Mellon Assistant Professor of English and creative writing at Dartmouth College. He is the author of three books of poetry and criticism, 'The Sobbing School' published by Penguin, 'Being Property Once Myself', published by Harvard University Press and his most recent book of poetry 'Owed' also published by Penguin. His writing has been published in The New York Times, The Paris Review and elsewhere. His first work of narrative non-fiction, ‘Spoken Word – a cultural history”, is forthcoming from Knopf.