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Interviews, event recordings and poets galore from Scotland and around the world.
This edition of our Nothing But The Poem podcast, hosted as usual by Samuel Tongue, features two poems by Isabelle Baafi, from her 2025 Forward Prize winning debut collection Chaotic Good.
‘In this wise-hearted and deft debut, Baafi gets to the grain of family, inheritance, the grit of growing up and the grappling to become oneself.’ - Rachel Long
‘Isabelle Baafi’s Chaotic Good is a debut of amazing endurance. Its formal pressures create a kind of kaleidoscopic intensity that – with each turn of the chamber – brings newly beautiful and painful shapes into focus. - Will Harris
The two poems discussed in the podcast from Chaotic Good are The Cottage and Burst Me Into Song
Scottish Poetry Library Podcast
Interviews, event recordings and poets galore from Scotland and around the world.
