Aileen Ballantyne

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 aftermath of 1988's Lockerbie bombing, still the worst terrorist attack to take place on British soil. Ballantyne also reads poems about the moon landing and childhood flights to the USA.

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Aileen Ballantyne is an episode from Scottish Poetry Library Podcast by Scottish Poetry Library.

This episode is 29:37 long.

This episode was published on Jan 24, 2020.

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