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Books Up Close is a show for book lovers, language nerds, or anyone who wants to know how texts get made. Listen as writer and academic Chris Lloyd performs a 'close reading' of some writing with the author themselves.
In this episode, we read Jane Yeh's poem 'This Morning,' from her collection The Ninjas. You can read the poem online [https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poems/poem/103-23145_THIS-MORNING], and buy this collection from your local bookshop, or at Bookshop.org [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ninjas-jane-yeh/3126691?ean=9781847771476].
Jane Yeh was born in America and has lived in London since 2002. Her collection Discipline (Carcanet, 2019) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She was named a Next Generation poet by the PBS for her collection The Ninjas (Carcanet, 2012), and her first collection, Marabou (Carcanet, 2005), was shortlisted for the Forward, Whitbread, and Jerwood Aldeburgh poetry prizes.
Episode references:
* Jane's 'craft book' recs: Rishi Dastidar (ed.), The Craft [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-craft-a-guide-to-making-poetry-happen-in-the-21st-century-rishi-dastidar/2639756?ean=9781911027850]; Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/bird-by-bird-instructions-on-writing-and-life-anne-lamott/1818821?ean=9781786898555]; Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-triggering-town-lectures-and-essays-on-poetry-and-writing-richard-hugo/3320816?ean=9780393338720]
* Jane's recs: Morgan Parker, The Magical Negro [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/magical-negro-morgan-parker/2477654?ean=9781472154071]; Hala Alyan, The Twenty-Ninth Year [https://bookmarks.reviews/reviews/the-twenty-ninth-year/]; Terrance Hayes, Lighthead [https://www.nationalbook.org/books/lighthead/]
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Produced, hosted, and edited by Chris Lloyd [https://www.instagram.com/chrisllloyd9].
Books Up Close: The Podcast
Books Up Close is a show for book lovers, language nerds, or anyone who wants to know how texts get made. Listen as writer and academic Chris Lloyd performs a 'close reading' of some writing with the author themselves.
