Sidereal

Rachael Boast was interviewed by The Poetry School where she is a tutor. Rachael recently won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Here's an extract from the interview . . .

This year at Crunch: the art and philosophy festival at Hay, Picador poet Rachael Boast will be getting to the heart of poetry’s power to awaken us to the universe’s mystery in ‘I Think Therefore Iamb’, questioning whether poetry is a release from the emotional hinterlands of real life, or a means of enriching them.

Picador poet Rachael Boast has won the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection.