A Lancaster University student’s powerful debut poetry collection, described as ‘essential reading for anyone grappling with the concept of gender’, will be published later this month and launched at Waterstones in September.

"Salmacis is a brilliantly evocative and thought-provoking collection exploring gender that forces you to think outside of the binary."

This week I'm with new, exciting, up-and-coming poet Beth Train-Brown talking about the key aspects and themes of her work, from LGBT+ activism to sea goddesses.

Oliver Crisp interviews journalist and poet, Beth Train-Brown, about her ground-breaking work: The Student's Guide to Quitting Smoking.

Spending her life with the circus, Elizabeth has performed as the fire-breathing Phoenix on stage since she was sixteen, writing poetry and fiction behind the scenes.