Rough Trade Q&A with Salena Godden and Gemma Cairney

Author and poet Salena Godden joins guest host Gemma Cairney for an intimate in-conversation to discuss the release of her new novel 'Mrs Death Misses Death'.

Show Notes

Salena Godden is one of Britain’s best loved poets and performers. She is also an activist, broadcaster, memoirist and essayist and is widely anthologised. She has published several volumes of poetry, the latest of which was Pessimism is for Lightweights,and a literary childhood memoir, Springfield Road.

She joins Gemma Cairney for an intimate in-conversation celebrating the release of Mrs Death Misses Death, a book which looks into the well-worn subject of death, telling the story of 'Mrs Death', an elderly working-class black woman, through poetry and prose.

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