The Body with Sin茅ad Gleeson and Sarah Perry
Damian Barr is joined by Sin茅ad Gleeson and Sarah Perry to discuss fiction, poetry and memoir that might help us better understand our relationship with our bodies.
A new series about how books might help us navigate everyday life, presented by writer and broadcaster Damian Barr.
Each episode takes a life experience - such as grief - and talks to writers about they handle it through their own reading, writing and lived experience. We explore the fiction, non-fiction, memoir and poetry that might help us better understand our own stories.
In today's episode we explore books that help us understand our relationship with our bodies, especially in this moment - as many of us are faced with transitioning back into public space after a year lived on screens and physically separated from one another. And in a time when many are dealing with anxieties around sickness or are living with its effects.
Damian's guests are Sarah Perry (The Essex Serpent; Melmoth; Essex Girls) and Sin茅ad Gleeson (Constellations: Reflections from Life). They discuss books by Maggie Nelson, Lucy Grealy, Sean Hewitt, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Anne Carson and Edwin Morgan.
Produced by Mair Bosworth for 大象传媒 Audio in Bristol
(Damian Barr Portrait by Andrew Hasson)
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Books Discussed in the Programme
Constellations: Reflections from Life by Sin茅ad Gleeson (Picador)
Melmoth by Sarah Perry (Serpent鈥檚 Tail)
Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson (Vintage)
Bluets by Maggie Nelson (Jonathan Cape)
The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde (Penguin)
The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde (WW Norton)
Twenty-One Love Poems by Adrienne Rich from the Collected Poems of Adrienne Rich (WW Norton)
Tongues of Fire by Sean Hewitt (Vintage)
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson (Melville House)
The Lunch Counter by Edwin Morgan from the Collected Poems of Edwin Morgan (Carcanet)
One Cigarette by Edwin Morgan from the Collected Poems of Edwin Morgan (Carcanet)
Broadcasts
- Tue 15 Jun 2021 11:30大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sun 10 Apr 2022 16:30大象传媒 Radio 4