Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre Podcasts

In this first episode in a new podcast series, Shara Lessley discusses her poem ‘The Clinic Bomber’s Mother’. The poem comes from Shara’s new book, ‘The Explosive Expert’s Wife’, published by the University of Wisconsin Press. In this discussion, Shara first reads her poem and then talks about a number of issues related to it and the book as a whole, such as motherhood, perceptions of the Middle East by Americans and violence in the Middle East and in America, especially domestic terrorism. Shara Lessley is a writer and teacher. The author of ‘Two-Headed Nightingale’ and ‘The Explosive Expert’s Wife’, and co-editor of ‘The Poem’s Country: Place and Poetic Practice’ (with Bruce Snider), she is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. Shara’s poems and essays have appeared in ‘Ploughshares’, ‘The Kenyon Review’, ‘Threepenny Review’, &#