Simon Thirsk, Jane Commane, Jo Bell, Robert Peake

Simon Thirsk of Bloodaxe Books invites Nine Arches’ editor Jane Commane with poets Jo Bell and Robert Peake to talk about what goes on behind the scenes in the making of a poetry book. In the digital age, why does good editing still matter, and what’s the value of the poet-editor relationship? Discover how the poets have found the process of editing and putting their poems together – which poems went it and which were cut? Where here any heart-wrenching choices or roads-less- travelled to take? Explore editing as an art, with a frank discussion of the highs and lows, and maybe the occasional typo.