In this episode of the Granta Podcast, we speak to the poet and critic Declan Ryan. His debut collection of poems, Crisis Actor, was published in 2023.
We discuss Declan Ryan’s essay ‘The Hurt Business’, published in Granta 170: Winners, the fight between Anthony Joshua and Daniel Dubois, and the commercialisation of boxing.
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Leo Robson is a cultural journalist whose work has appeared in the London Review of Books, the New Yorker, and the New Left Review, among other publications. His first novel will be published in 2025.
Josie Mitchell is senior editor at Granta.