Bonus episode: Edwina Attlee & Ange Mlinko

Mar 21, 06:12 AM

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A special bonus episode of the Faber Poetry Podcast with Edwina Attlee and Ange Mlinko.

In this bonus episode of the Faber Poetry Podcast, Rachael and Jack welcome guests Edwina Attlee and Ange Mlinko to the studio to discuss archival encounters, the weather in Florida and the acceptable (or not) use of cliché. Audio postcards in this episode come from Michael Pedersen, Richard Scott and Diane Seuss.

Show Notes

Studio guests

EDWINA ATTLEE is a writer and lecturer. She has published two pamphlets, Roasting Baby (if a leaf falls press, 2016) and the cream (clinic, 2016) and her debut collection, a great shaking, was published by Tenement Press in 2023.

ANGE MLINKO has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Randall Jarrell Award for Criticism. She writes for the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. She lives and teaches in Florida. Foxglovewise is her latest collection.

Audio postcards featured in this episode
'Lines on the Melodies in Men' written and read by Michael Pedersen, from his collection The Cat Prince & Other Poems, Corsair, 2023. His debut novel, Muckle Flugga is out in May 2025.

'Carnelian' written and read by Richard Scott. Taken from his recent second collection, That Broke into Shining Crystals (Faber, 2025).

‘Romantic Poet’ written and read by Diane Seuss, from her collection Modern Poetry (Fitzcarraldo, 2025). Her Pulitzer Prize-winning collection frank:sonnets is also out with Fitzcarraldo now.

About the presenters

RACHAEL ALLEN is the author of Kingdomland and God Complex (both Faber) and co-author of numerous artists’ books, including Nights of Poor Sleep (Prototype), Almost One, Say Again! (Slimvolume), Green at an Angle (Kestle Barton) and Material (Loose Joints). She is the poetry editor for Fitzcarraldo Editions and teaches Creative Writing at Queen Mary University.

JACK UNDERWOOD is a poet, writer and critic. He is author of Happiness (Faber 2015) Solo for Mascha Voice (Test Centre, 2018) and A Year in the New Life (Faber 2021). His debut work of non-fiction, NOT EVEN THIS, was published by Corsair in 2021. He has collaborated widely with composers and artists, and his work has been published internationally and in translation. He is senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College.

The Faber Poetry Podcast is produced by Rachael Allen, Jack Underwood and Hannah Marshall for Faber. Production and editing by Strathmore Publishing. Special thanks to Edwina Attlee, Ange Mlinko, Michael Pedersen, Richard Scott and Diane Seuss. All previous episodes are available to stream on Audioboom, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other major podcast listening platforms.