Rachel Long & Sarah Howe: Sparrow on the Rooftop

Podcast: London Review Bookshop Podcast · London Review Bookshop

Opublikowano: 2026-08-17

Rachel Long’s debut collection, My Darling from the Lions (Picador), was nominated for the Forward Prize, the Costa, and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Sparrow on the Rooftop (Chatto & Windus) is the eagerly-awaited follow-up: Saba Sams has described it as ‘gruesome and intimate, alive to the rot, funny’. Long read from the collection and was in conversation with Sarah Howe, poetry editor at Chatto, whose own second collection Foretokens was published last year. You can buy a copy of Sparrow on the Rooftop from the London Review Bookshop. Learn...