Ep. 132 - Salena Godden

Lunar Poetry Podcasts

Oct 28, 2021•1 hr 10 min

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This week Repeat Beat Poet is in conversation with poet, author, broadcaster, activist, and longstanding rabble-rousing doyenne of UK poetry, Salena Goddena. The pair reflect on Salena's career in poetry and literature, the inspirations behind her debut novel Mrs Death Misses Death, and have a good chat about the complications and joys of writing to and through an embodiment of Death; like how facing loss and grief can teach us how to live, love, survive, and fight for a better world. There's also chat about being a flaneuse, and writing while walking around mystical East London.

We hear two readings from Salena -

Pessimism Is For Lightweights - -0:35:19 (ISH)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW0CnTXUjfc&t=58s

[excerpt from Mrs. Death Misses Death. The First Mourning of the First Morning - 0:11:25]

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