Podcast: London Review Bookshop Podcast (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Philip Terry & Marina Warner: Dante’s PurgatorioPub date: 2025-07-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn his 2014 Dante’s Inferno poet and provocateur Philip Terry moved the action to Essex University. His Purgatorio (Carcanet) transports us to nearby Mersea Island, where Ted Berrigan leads our author up an artificial mountain to meet with artists Grayson Perry, Rachel Whiteread and Damien Hirst, as well as Christopher Marlowe, Boris Johnson, Lady Diana, Jean Paul Getty, Hilary Clinton, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, Martin McGuinness, Ciaran Carson and Anoushka Shankar.
Philip Terry was joined in conversation with Marina Warner at the Bookshop.
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