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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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In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

Interview: Fiona Benson

Fiona Benson & Rachael Allen

‘I’ve always wanted to write from the gut, to write instinctively rather than cerebrally.’

PoetryPoetry | The Online Edition
Poetry | The Online Edition

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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Poetry | The Online Edition padlock

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?’

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