Cassie McCullagh

I'm seeing it in a new context now.

No, no, they do so many things.

You can actually, I can't believe I'm going to say this, you can actually spin your smalls.

I've got to be sure to rinse it very well, but look.

Well, after that refreshing palate cleansing piece of poetry, I'm almost afraid to ask you, Fiona, right, what you're reading next, but be interesting to know.

And 10-year anniversary just coming up.

Although that Shell book is a very beautiful thing to look at.

It's stunning.

Yeah, I've heard about this book.

What's the difference, do you think, between remorse and regret?

Yeah, a public admission of guilt and apology.

A good gruesome killing.

Well, that was simply splendid.

Thank you both for your attention to detail in looking at these books for us and also for your delightful stories about your own reading.

Thanks for coming and being with us.

Fiona Wright is a poet and essayist.

Her books include Small Acts of Disappearance, Essays on Hunger, and the poetry collections Knuckled and Domestic Interior.

Her latest is The World Was Whole, which was published just a month ago by Geramondo.

And Kimberley Knight is a historian of tears, of medieval Scandinavia and what she calls the materiality of love.

She's connected with the National Centre for the History of Emotions, working now on a project with the University of Queensland.