Fiona Benson
Fiona Benson’s first pamphlet was published as part of the Faber New Poets series. Bright Travellers was published by Jonathan Cape in May 2014.
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Interview: Fiona Benson
Fiona Benson & Rachael Allen
‘I’ve always wanted to write from the gut, to write instinctively rather than cerebrally.’
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Demeter
Fiona Benson
Up in shorn Drake’s Meadow the hay bales shine. / They’re sheathed in plastic tubing and the plastic / is slack at each end then tight round the bale / like a film.
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Toboggan Run
Fiona Benson
‘What would I give / to be one of those swimmers in all this snow, / swallowed by the cold and the night’s strange radiance?’