78: Murmuration, with Blake Auden
12/02/21 • 25 min
Our guest on episode 78 is poet Blake Auden, who has almost 300,000 Instagram followers and is known for speaking openly about mental health. He also has four collections of poems out in the world, and the most recent is Murmuration, which came out in October.
He and I talked about what therapy and writing have in common, how he approaches social media so that it helps rather than hinders his mental health, and lots more.
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Books Mentioned in this episode:
Murmuration, by Blake Auden
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
Weather, by Jenny Offill
Dept of Speculation, by Jenny Offill
Girl, Unstrung, by Claire Handscombe
This Time Next Year, by Sophie Cousens
Just Haven't Met You Yet, by Sophie Cousens
The Twelve Dates of Christmas, by Jenny Bayliss
The Winter of Second Chances (UK)/The Season of Second Chances (US), by Jenny Bayliss
On a Night Like This, by Lindsey Kelk
Gifts, by Laura Barnett
Black British Lives Matter, ed. Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder
Unscripted, by Claire Handscombe
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Register for Claire's online book launch for Girl, Unstrung on 5th December here.
In the US and now the UK, buy your hardbacks and paperbacks from Bookshop.org to support the podcast, as well as independent bookshops!
In other countries, you can support the podcast by using this link to buy from Blackwells.com, which ships internationally at inexpensive rates.
Get your first two audiobooks for just $14.99 with the code BRITLIT on Libro.fm.
Help fund the podcast through this PayPal link!
Buy Claire’s novels, Unscripted and Girl, Unstrung.
Sign up for Claire’s mailing list.
Questions? Comments? Need a book recommendation? Email Claire at [email protected]
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Our guest on episode 78 is poet Blake Auden, who has almost 300,000 Instagram followers and is known for speaking openly about mental health. He also has four collections of poems out in the world, and the most recent is Murmuration, which came out in October.
He and I talked about what therapy and writing have in common, how he approaches social media so that it helps rather than hinders his mental health, and lots more.
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Want to help the Brit Lit Podcast survive and thrive?
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Books Mentioned in this episode:
Murmuration, by Blake Auden
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong
Weather, by Jenny Offill
Dept of Speculation, by Jenny Offill
Girl, Unstrung, by Claire Handscombe
This Time Next Year, by Sophie Cousens
Just Haven't Met You Yet, by Sophie Cousens
The Twelve Dates of Christmas, by Jenny Bayliss
The Winter of Second Chances (UK)/The Season of Second Chances (US), by Jenny Bayliss
On a Night Like This, by Lindsey Kelk
Gifts, by Laura Barnett
Black British Lives Matter, ed. Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder
Unscripted, by Claire Handscombe
*****
Register for Claire's online book launch for Girl, Unstrung on 5th December here.
In the US and now the UK, buy your hardbacks and paperbacks from Bookshop.org to support the podcast, as well as independent bookshops!
In other countries, you can support the podcast by using this link to buy from Blackwells.com, which ships internationally at inexpensive rates.
Get your first two audiobooks for just $14.99 with the code BRITLIT on Libro.fm.
Help fund the podcast through this PayPal link!
Buy Claire’s novels, Unscripted and Girl, Unstrung.
Sign up for Claire’s mailing list.
Questions? Comments? Need a book recommendation? Email Claire at [email protected]
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Blake Auden
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Previous Episode
Bonus episode: The Idea Of You, with Robinne Lee
My guest in this special bonus episode is Robinne Lee, the author of my favourite read of 2021, The Idea Of You. She's not British, but I loved this book so much that I wanted to bring you this interview anyway!
Robinne and I talked about her origin story as a fanfic writer, why she chose to make her main character French, why love stories that don’t end happily can have such a big impact on us both in fiction and in real life, and a whole lot more.
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Books Mentioned in this episode:
The Idea of You, by Robinne Lee
Bringing Up Bébé (US)/French Children Don't Throw Food (UK),
by Pamela Druckerman
Bonjour Tristesse, by Françoise Sagan (French version)
Bonjour Tristesse, by Françoise Sagan (in English)
My Oxford Year, by Julia Whelan
Girl, Unstrung, by Claire Handscombe
Unscripted, by Claire Handscombe
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In the US and now the UK, buy your hardbacks and paperbacks from Bookshop.org to support the podcast, as well as independent bookshops!
In other countries, you can support the podcast by using this link to buy from Blackwells.com, which ships internationally at inexpensive rates.
Get your first two audiobooks for just $14.99 with the code BRITLIT on Libro.fm.
Help fund the podcast through this PayPal link!
Buy Claire’s novel, Unscripted.
Pre-order Claire’s YA novel, Girl, Unstrung.
Sign up for Claire’s mailing list.
Questions? Comments? Need a book recommendation? Email Claire at [email protected]
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The Brit Lit Podcast
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Robinne Lee
Claire
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