London Review Bookshop Podcast

Patricia Lockwood’s literary career began with poetry, and her second poetry collection (the first to make it to the UK) Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, published in 2014, left her many fans desperate for more of her surreal, subversive, zany, deadly serious wit. For more than a decade they’ve had to make do with a brilliant memoir, two brilliant pieces of autofiction and her many superb essays and reviews in the pages of the LRB. Now at last comes Agate Head / Stone Soup, a poetry collection that blends her new-found passion for metalwork with reflections on geological time, internet memes, explorations of organic bodies, and observations of youth. Lockwood was talking to poet and fellow Booker judge, Raymond Antrobus, whose latest book is The Quiet Ear.

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Jeremy Lee’s smoked eel sandwich became a London sensation when it was introduced at Soho’s Quo Vadis, where Lee is chef proprietor and, amongst other things, led Jay Rayner to call him ‘a rare phenomena in the London food world; a chap everyone agrees is a good thing.’ Now his second cookbook Kitchening (4th Estate) continues his exploration of the two most important things in great cooking: simplicity and deliciousness. Jeremy discussed his philosophy of food with one of the country’s leading food writers Bee Wilson, author of, most recently, The Heart-Shaped Tin (4th Estate).

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In On Difficulty (Faber), her latest book of non-poetry, poet and essayist Lavinia Greenlaw explores the fascination, terror and opportunity of wrestling with the opaque, the obscure, the complex and the indeterminate. Is poetry really difficult, and do we like it more when it is? Can difficulty provide its own solution? These and other questions are answered by Lavinia Greenlaw in conversation with the artist Mark Wallinger.

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Triage (Allen Lane), Claudia Rankine’s new book, is an unclassifiable piece of writing, blending narrative, criticism and lyricism to create something capable of facing ‘the collective devastation of the present’ (in Saidiya Hartman’s words). Two friends meet in an art gallery after decades of silence: we eavesdrop on their conversation, memories and enduring friendship. Rankine was in conversation with Victoria Adukwei Bulley, whose debut collection Quiet (Faber, 2023) won the Rathbones Folio Poetry Prize.

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In Transitions, the latest title in MACK’s ‘Discourse’ series writers Sita Balani and Jay Bernard, guided by Stuart Hall’s notion of ‘conjuncture’, draw on literature, social theory, and lived experience to offer an urgent account of our fractured present. Their dialogue takes in Britain’s colonial past, the advent of AI and the legacy of extractive capitalism to ask the urgent question: what does it mean to be human in a political culture determined to devalue the Humanities? Their conversation is chaired by Sana Goyal, editor of Wasafiri.

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