A. E. Stallings: This Afterlife

<div>In this week's Book Club podcast, my guest is the distinguished poet A. E. Stallings, whose new selected poems <em>This Afterlife</em> marks her first UK publication in book form. She tells me why the idea that formal verse is stuffy is wrong, how she thinks Greek myth is a living tradition, and why women poets have to be both Orpheus and Eurydice.</div>