Holly Pester & Luke Roberts: Cafés
Podcast: London Review Bookshop PodcastPublished On: Wed Sep 09 2026
Description: Holly Pester’s Cafés (Fitzcarraldo) continues the trajectory which, since her debut Comic Timing, has made her one of the most exciting poets writing. An elegy for lost communal space, and a stylish political intervention, Francesca Wade has described Cafés as embodying ‘a public space or a place to hide; to meet friends and strangers or to be alone; Pester's brilliance builds this cafe up and invites us in to linger’. Pester was in conversation with Luke Roberts, lecturer at King’s College London, co-director of the small press Distance No Object, and author of (most recently) Bad Omens (Book Works). You can buy a copy of Cafés from the London Review Bookshop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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