Stephen Sexton & Kirsten Irving talk poetry and video games

Stephen Sexton's debut collection If All the World and Love Were Young (Penguin, 2019), navigates childhood, memory, grief and loss through the prism of classic 16-bit video game Super Mario World. Kirsten Irving is a poet and co-editor of Sidekick Books, which has published video game themed anthologies such as Coin Opera and Coin Opera 2. Sexton and Irving joined Oliver Fox in September 2019 to talk about the strange and surprising relationship between their poetry and the world of video games, and read work from their video game themed publications. Both Stephen Sexton and Kirsten Irving have been prize winners in the National Poetry Competition: as of this podcast's publication you can still enter the 2019 National Poetry Competition ahead of the 31 October deadline over at bit.ly/natpocomp.

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