‘I was starting to write when… I would have been bowled over if anyone had told me about there was such a thing as a live Canadian poet. We just assumed that everyone we studied was dead and English, though we did have a few dead Canadians as well.’
Itching to get away? Then come with us to Canada, where we chat with Rhona McAdam and delve into the many treasures of a back catalogue punctuated by the arrivals and departures of a life spent between two continents — and we’ll sneak a morsel of her forthcoming collection Larder. Plus Robin and Peter discuss their reading of Rachael Boast and Jackie Wills. Amid the bardic bandinage your hosts also make time to share ill-informed opinions about what constitutes an emerging poet…