In Series 4, Episode 4 join me, Adam Z. Robinson, and my guest, Caroline Bird as we discuss 'The Striding Place' by Gertrude Atherton.
Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. Her most recent collection, The Air Year, won the Forward Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Prize and the Polari Prize. Her previous collections include In These Days of Prohibition, which was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2017. Caroline’s play, Red Ellen, about the labour MP Ellen Wilkinson, was shortlisted for the 2021 George Devine Award. Caroline’s latest book is her Selected Poems, Rookie, published by Carcanet in Spring 2022.
Follow Caroline on Twitter here.
SUPPORT ME ON PATREON
www.patreon.com/adamzrobinson
Join us on Facebook:
facebook.com/groups/theghoststorybookclub/
Follow us on Twitter:
twitter.com/GhostClubPod
Christmas Special: with Mike Muncer - 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas' (1974) and 'The Ash Tree' (1975)
Ten Christmas Ghost Stories
'The Upper Berth' by F. Marion Crawford: with Nathan Ballingrud
'Martin's Close' by M.R. James: with Naomi Ryan
'Berenice' by Edgar Allan Poe: with Leon Craig
LIVE SPECIAL: The Woman in Black (1989 adaptation) with Prof. Catherine Spooner & Andrew Michael Hurley
'The Giant Wistaria' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: with Dr. Emily Vincent
'The Hated House' by Celia Fremlin: with Kirsty Logan
'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' by M.R. James: with Will Maclean
'Man-Size in Marble' by E. Nesbit: with Rachel Fairburn
News... Live Events This Autumn
'The Lady's Maid's Bell' by Edith Wharton: with Rhianna Dhillon
Christmas Special: with Mike Muncer - 'The Stalls of Barchester' (1971) and 'Lost Hearts' (1973)
'The Room in the Tower' by E. F. Benson: with James Swanton
'They' by Rudyard Kipling: with Emily Klassen
'The Cicerones' by Robert Aickman: with Andrew Michael Hurley
'The Lost Ghost' by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: with Becky Darke
'The House with the Brick-Kiln' by E.F. Benson: with Louise Blain
LIVE-STREAMED CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - Be part of the audience!
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Lit Society: Books and Drama
Ex Libris
Write The Book: Conversations on Craft
Anne of Green Gables
Black Beauty
Fresh Air
Myths and Legends