Playlist
Adam Thorpe: The Poet/Novelist Divide
The acclaimed author Adam Thorpe has, unusually for a writer, got a collection of poetry and a new novel out at the same time.
Ian McMillan finds out how the two very different halves of Adam Thorpe's writing brain work - do the novelist and the poet coalesce to form a whole, or do they in fact pull in opposite directions and play off one another?
Between Each Breath and Birds with a Broken Wing by Adam Thorpe are both published by Jonathan Cape.
Rings On Her Fingers
A moving and evocative short story, written especially for The Verb by novelist Aminatta Forna, which examines love and memory. Read by Robert Aldous.
The Devil That Danced on the Water and Ancestor Stones are out are out now from Harper Collins and Bloomsbury respectively.
Generation Txt
Generation Txt are six talented new poets under the age of 27. One of them, Joe Dunthorne, joins Ian to read some of his acrobatic poetic work.
You can find more of Generation Txt's poetry here.
http://www.myspace.com/generationtxt
http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/
