‘Here is a wasteland / of parched aesthetics / patched up with modern tubes’ – Rachael Allen’s long-awaited second collection, God Complex, is a long narrative poem describing the breakdown of a relationship against a backdrop of environmental degradation and toxicity. In this episode, she reads from the collection and was joined in conversation with the poet Lucy Mercer, whose first collection is Emblem (Prototype, 2022).Buy God Complex: lrb.me/godcomplexpodFind more events at the Bookshop: lrb.me/eventspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.