12 Dec 2020

Kate's Klassics: Isabel Colgate's Orlando King

From Saturday Morning, 11:45 am on 12 December 2020
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Poet and writer Kate Camp returns to discuss a historic work of classic literature - this week it's Orlando King by Isabel Colgate.

Written in 1968, the novel follows a charismatic young man trying to make his way in politics in inter-war London.

It's been described as bildungsroman, Greek tragedy and political saga all rolled into one.

And Bloomsbury Publishing have recently republished the Orlando King trilogy in a single volume. More details here.

Kate Camp's latest poetry collection is called How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems (Victoria University Press).