On Elizabeth Bishop: Colm Toibin and Ruth Padel
b'In On Elizabeth Bishop novelist and essayist Colm T\\xf3ib\\xedn provides a deeply personal meditation on one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, and one who has had a powerful influence on his own work. \\u2018Above all,\\u2019 writes Saskia Hamilton, \\u2018he honours Bishop\\u2019s exact ways with language, and his sifting of what is said from what is unsaid in her poetry illuminates his own watchful and patient art as a novelist.\\u2019 T\\xf3ib\\xedn joined us at the shop to talk about Elizabeth Bishop with the poet and critic Ruth Padel whose most recent collection, Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth, was published by Chatto in 2014.
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