73: John Montague: A Poet's Life

Send us a text How much do we need to know about a writer's life? How does the life impinge on the work? What is the human price of art? In this episode we talk to biographer Adrian Frazier about John Montague: A Poet's Life. ‘The best Irish poet of his generation’ – Derek Mahon Already a highly lauded biographer, Adrian Frazier was a close acquaintance of Montague for more than forty years. In this fully authorised narrative he reveals the sources of poetry in Montague's life and traces the ...