Happy to be back for another PBS Special. Featuring a chat with the brilliant Fiona Benson.She has published three previous collections of poetry, all of which were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize: Bright Travellers, which won the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry's Prize for First Full Collection, Vertigo & Ghost, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize and won both the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and Ephemeron, which was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the London Hellenic Prize.Today we unpack two poems from her hotly anticipated new book, 'Midden Witch.' We talk process, witches, magic and superstition. Hope you enjoy.

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