We discuss how literature can be forged from sadness with two writers longlisted for the Guardian first book awardIn this week's podcast we talk to two debut writers longlisted for the Guardian first book award who acquire taken grief as a starting point,and let it carry them to stunningly original places.
Katharine Norbury's The Fish Ladder is an account of her travels through the Scottish, English and Welsh countryside which she embarked upon with her small daughter after suffering a miscarriage. Max Porter's Grief is a Thing with Feathers has been described as "a freewheeling hybrid of novella, or poem,essay and play-for-voices". It follows a father and his two small sons through the months following the death of their wife and mother. The writers join us in the studio to explain how they found a form for their stories and to discuss the relationship between literature and life. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com