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Sherds Podcast

Sherds Podcast is a journey through the outskirts of literary history. Each episode, we take an in-depth look at a lesser-known literary text and attempt to give it the critical attention it deserves: books that are criminally overlooked, have struggled to reach an anglophone audience, or are just downright odd. Hosted by Sam Pulham and Rob Prouse.

#1 Flower Phantoms by Ronald Fraser

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In this episode, we discuss Ronald Fraser's Flower Phantoms (1926), an obscure fantasy in which Judy, a student of botanical sciences, engages in a psycho-sexual communion with the soul of an orchid in Kew Gardens.  

We were beguiled by this strange, orchidaceous novella.  Over the course of the programme, we consider Fraser's at once fascinating and problematic treatment of female sexuality, his preoccupation with epistemological questions, and his meditations on the creative act itself.  

LiteratureSam Pulhamronaldfraser, flowerphantoms, weirdfiction, valancourtbooks, jonathancape, markvalentine