It's a pleasure to be joined by the brilliant Daniel Sluman. Daniel’s writing first began to be published whilst studying at University, and in 2012 his debut poetry collection Absence has a weight of its own was published to critical acclaim by Nine Arches Press. He was named one of Huffington Post’s Top 5 British Poets to Watch in 2015, the same year his second book the terrible was released. His third collection, single window, was published through Nine Arches Press in September 2021, and was nominated for the T.S Eliot Prize.
Today we speak about a brilliant poem by James Dickey called The Lifeguard. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42717/the-lifeguard