Ben Lerner and Anne Enright on poetry and fiction

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Johny Pitts explores poetry and fiction with two great prose stylists. He talks to Ben Lerner, best known for his experimental novels Leaving at Atocha Station, 10:04 and The Topeka School, about his first collection of poetry in over a decade. The Lights is an enquiring and evocative investigation into fatherhood, art and corporate America. Later in the programme, Johny talks with the Irish writer Anne Enright. The Wren, The Wren is a multigenerational novel which traces the inheritance of trauma and the deep bonds between mothers and daughters, it also includes her poetry for the first time. Book List – Sunday 17 September and Thursday 21 September The Lights by Ben Lerner Leaving the Atocha Station by Ben Lerner 10:04 by Ben Lerner The Topeka School by Ben Lerner The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright An Duanaire Sixteen Hundred to Nineteen Hundred by Seán Ó Tuama The Yellow Bittern by Philip McDaragh