Patricia Lockwood and Raymond Antrobus: Agate Head / Stone Soup

Patricia Lockwood’s literary career began with poetry. Her second poetry collection (and the first to make it to the UK), Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, left readers desperate for more of her surreal, subversive, zany, deadly serious wit. For more than a decade they’ve had to make do with a brilliant memoir, two brilliant pieces of autofiction and her superb essays and reviews in the pages of the LRB. 

Now at last comes Agate Head / Stone Soup, a poetry collection that blends her new-found passion for metalwork with reflections on geological time, internet memes, explorations of organic bodies and observations of youth. 

Lockwood talked to poet and fellow Booker judge, Raymond Antrobus, whose latest book is The Quiet Ear.