E96 - Night Contradicts the Day

‘Hölderlin’s lovely blueness

you hold to you,

it is tensile

 

through the smeared glass’

 

This week, we join Sally in conversation with poet, critic, and translator Stephen Romer, following the recent publication of his latest poetry pamphlet, Night Contradicts the Day. Listen for reflections on the intimacies - or otherwise - of care, empathy and its absence, and the challenge laid down by the neurodivergent mind. The poems in this pamphlet also stress the redemptive power of the aesthetic.

Stephen’s pamphlet is published b...