“It’s almost as if she died and she took the words away.”
—Susan Musgrave
In this interview with Griffin Trustee Ian Williams, 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Susan Musgrave on the role of poetry in providing catharsis, the neuroscience of the grieving brain, the tension between grief and love, and remembering the life of her daughter beyond her tragic fate. She ends with a reading of the poem “The Truth” from her shortlisted collection, Exculpatory Lilies (Mcclelland & Stewart).
