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Witty Poetry (ft. Joanna Lee)
WIT LIT: the funny books podcast
English - October 01, 2020 09:06 - 22 minutes - 21.2 MBBooks Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
What do you get if you cross poetry with a joke?
In this episode I'm joined by Joanna Lee: agent at Curtis Brown, poet, and poetry critic whose work has been featured in the Guardian, LRB, and White Review. We talk about the lack of diversity in poetry criticism, the relationship between humour and tragedy, brevity, and ridiculous metaphors.
NB: this was recorded before lockdown, and when I was in a phase of saying that everything I liked was 'omg so silly.' Please forgive me.
Wit Lit List:
Poetry
Therapist by Joe Dunthorne
Discipline by Jane Yeh
SPAM Zine & Press
Three Leaf Press
Playing with Playing with Fire by Nasser Hussain by Nasser Hussain
The Flea, and the Relic by John Donne
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
Dear Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
Novels
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-WakesbergÂ
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
Joanna is on Twitter @joanna_brl. I'm on Twitter @lily_lindon. I'm on Instagram @bookymcbookface.
Omg so silly,
Lily