Faber Poetry Podcast

A special bonus episode of the Faber Poetry Podcast, taken from our audio vaults to celebrate this week's announcement of the 2025 T. S. Eliot Prize. Featuring Isabelle Baafi and Sarah Howe, both shortlisted for their most recent collections, Chaotic Good and Foretokens, respectively.In this episode, recorded towards the very end of 2024, Rachael and Jack welcome Isabelle and Sarah to the studio to discuss dishes gone wrong, the fun of puns and why poets write about their mothers. Audio postcards in this episode come from Matthew Rohrer, Maurice Riordan and Sasha Debevec-McKenney.Show NotesStudio guestsISABELLE BAAFI is a poet, editor and critic. Her pamphlet Ripe (ignitionpress) won the Somerset Maugham Award and was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. Her poetry and prose have been published in the TLS, the Poetry Review, the London Magazine, Oxford Poetry and elsewhere. Her debut collection Chaotic Good (Faber, 2025) has been awarded the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection, shortlisted for the T. S