Alasdair Paterson's guest appearances

Alasdair Paterson

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast

Kevin Young

Emily Dickinson

Jenny Lewis

Blake Morrison

Sarah Stewart

Eileen Myles

David Briggs

Mary Jean Chan

Sarah Howe

Thomas Lux

Robert Wrigley

Chris King

Kwame Dawes

Marie Howe

Don Paterson

OwlTail

Odysseys of one sort or another theme the latest SPL podcast. Our guide, the poet Alasdair Paterson, takes us on a journey from a wry take on Homer's Greece through the Livepool music scene of the 1970s, onwards to post-Soviet Russia, ending in Arcadia. Little wonder Paterson's latest collection is called Elsewhere or Thereabouts (Shearsman). Along the way we welcome guests such as the geologist James Hutton and Paterson's fellow librarian-poet Philip Larkin.

[SPL] June 2014: Alasdair Paterson