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Aileen Ballantyne

Scottish Poetry Library Podcast by Scottish Poetry Library

Jan 24, 202029:37Arts

Before becoming a poet, Aileen Ballantyne was a journalist, and it's her former profession that informs her poetry, not least in a sequence of poems in her recently published collection Taking Flight that explore the aft...

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Aileen Ballantyne is an episode from Scottish Poetry Library Podcast by Scottish Poetry Library. Before becoming a poet, Aileen Ballantyne was a journalist, and it's her former profession that informs her poetry, not least in a sequence of...

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