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Open Book: Ben Lerner and Anne Enright on poetry and fiction

Ben Lerner and Anne Enright on poetry and fiction

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Ben Lerner and Anne Enright on poetry and fiction

Johny Pitts explores poetry and fiction with Anne Enright and Ben Lerner.

Johny Pitts explores poetry and fiction with Ben Lerner and Anne Enright.

Johny Pitts explores poetry and fiction with two great prose stylists. 
He talks to Ben Lerner, best known for his experimental novels Leaving at Atocha Station, 10:04 and The Topeka School, about his first collection of poetry in over a decade.  The Lights is an enquiring and evocative investigation into fatherhood, art and corporate America.
Later in the programme, Johny talks with the Irish writer Anne Enright. The Wren, The Wren is a multigenerational novel which traces the inheritance of trauma and the deep bonds between mothers and daughters, it also includes her poetry for the first time.

Book List – Sunday 17 September and Thursday 21 September

The Lights by Ben Lerner 
Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner
10:04 by Ben Lerner
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright 
An Duanaire Sixteen Hundred to Nineteen Hundred by Seán Ó Tuama 
The Yellow Bittern by Philip McDaragh

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