麻豆约拍

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the 麻豆约拍's radio poetry archive selecting The Echo Chamber with Tracy K Smith and Patricia Lockwood.

Outside of a few famous names, recent British poetry has made little impact on American life and letters. The same might be said in reverse: though we speak the same language, our poetries are oddly discrete.

Paul Farley hears from two younger female American voices:

Tracy K Smith's book 'Life on Mars' won a Pulitzer Prize for her poems about space and race and David Bowie.

Patricia Lockwood's writing-life on Twitter is watched from around the world and her 'sexts' and her 'Rape Joke' poem brought her a celebrity very rare in poetry.

Both poets read from their groundbreaking books and share some new poems too.

Producer: Tim Dee

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in 2016.