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Don Paterson: Zonal

2020/3/18
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Sam's guest on this week’s Book Club is the poet Don Paterson — whose new book *Zonal *finds him accessing a new, confessional mode, a longer line and a childhood interest in the spooky TV show The Twilight Zone. Don talks about the relationship between poetry and jazz, the split between 'page poetry' and spoken-word material, the shortcomings of Rupi Kaur, whether poems should include 'spoiler alerts', and lifts the lid on his vicious feud with the man he calls 'Alan Jacket'. 

Presented by Sam Leith.