Rachel Long & Sarah Howe: Sparrow on the Rooftop

Rachel Long reads from and discusses her latest poetry collection, Sparrow on the Rooftop, with poet and editor Sarah Howe, whose own second collection Foretokens was published last year..

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’.