Helen Heath; credit Kate MacPherson

As my Tuesday Poem feature today, I am linking to my recent Women on Air interview with poet Helen Heath, author of the poetry collection “Graft.”

Helen Heath won the inaugural ScienceTeller Poetry Award in 2011 for her poem ‘Making Tea in the Universe’ and is currently undertaking a PhD in Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington; her research explores how science is represented in poetry. Widely published in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and the US, Graft is Helen’s debut poetry collection, with themes that include science, family connection, and fairytales.

To listen to the interview — and hear Helen reading ‘Making Tea in the Universe’ and ‘Holding water’ — click Here.

Then either click on the ‘Play’ button, or download the MP3

In addition, you can read my “What I’m Reading” post on Graft here.

And my Tuesday Poem feature of Helen’s poem Fairytale v: O Brother, published in Graft, is here.

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