# Fiona Benson
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fiona benson (born 1978) is an English poet. Her collections have been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2015 and 2019. Vertigo and Ghost (2019) won Forward Prizes for best collection and best single poem.
Mark Haworth-Booth
A reading by Mark Haworth-Booth from his second collection of poems The Thermobaric Playground, published in 2022 by Dempsey and Windle under their Vole imprint.
Mark studied English Literature at Cambridge University, Art History at Edinburgh University and Creative Writing at the University of E…
A Note of Unscholarliness
Mícheál McCann joins host Seán Hewitt to chat about bringing queerness to the traditional Irish lament, writers as magpies and cheesecloths, and a brilliant, brave parenthesis placement. Mícheál reads his poem “To an Imagined Child” and Fiona Benson’s “Big Dipper Fireflies (Photinus pyralis).”
Arji's Poetry Pickle Jar X Poetry Book Society with Fiona Benson
Happy to be back for another PBS Special. Featuring a chat with the brilliant Fiona Benson.
She has published three previous collections of poetry, all of which were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize: Bright Travellers, which won the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Seamus Heaney Cent…
Boo Hewerdine, Fiona Benson, Alison Binney, Yvonne Lyon, Eartoon
Ian McMillan welcomes poetry about fathers, songs celebrating the things that fall out of books, and a poetic investigation into the women who were labelled witches, with guests Alison Binney, Boo Hewerdine, Yvonne Lyon, and Fiona Benson. Ian also presents a new Eartoon (our cartoon for the ear ) w…
Ep 17: How To DNF Like A Pro
In this week’s episode, we respond to our listeners with all our deepest, darkest DNF secrets: why we do it, when we do it, and how we feel when it happens. We also talk about the books we’ve read recently as well as the backlist titles and new releases we hope to explore in the coming weeks.
Bo…
The Mythic and the Familiar: Fiona Benson and Pascale Petit
In this special episode, recorded live at Push the Boat Out in November 2025, two of the most compelling voices in contemporary poetry come together for a haunting and illuminating conversation, chaired by Jenny Niven, Director of Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Pascale Petit and Fiona Bens…
The Taboo of Motherhood
Liz Berry speaks with host Hannah Lowe about joy and resistance, making the poems you’re desperate for, and the secret language of friendship between poets. Liz reads her poem “The Republic of Motherhood” and “Childbed” by Fiona Benson.
The full transcript, copies of the poems and Liz's bio can be …
Poems with Friends: Charlie Beaumont
In this latest episode in our mini series of 'Poems with Friends', John Prebble speaks with Charlie Beaumont about a poem that is keeping him company at this time: 'Irises' by Fiona Benson.
Charlie is a great friend to The Poetry Exchange - one of our most avid and closest listeners, always with su…
Poems to earth you
To 'earth' us this week, Ian McMIllan invites Owen Sheers, Jason Allen Paisant, Helen Mort, and David Morley to share poems that ground us - including work from the 2026 Laurel Prize for environmental poetry by the winner Fiona Benson.
Helen Mort's latest book is 'Stepmother', Jason Allen Paisant's…
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald - Rerun
In 2019 we made this show on W.G. Sebald's book The Rings of Saturn, which was first published in Germany in 1995. Joining John and Andy to walk around this enigmatic masterpiece are the writer and swimmer Philip Hoare and the novelist Jessie Greengrass. Other books under discussion are The Years b…
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