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Ian McEwan on Speculative Fiction, Lost Poems and What We Can Know

Intelligence Squared

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The Drowned Future and the Vanished Poem

McEwan describes the 2119 drowned UK, the missing Francis Blundy poem that drives Tom's scholarly quest, why the poem is omitted, the corona form, and how Blundy's persona was constructed from poets' traits.

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