Poetry Extra Episodes Episode guide
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Radio Heaney
Daljit Nagra introduces the County Derry poet Seamus Heaney and his love for the wireless.
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Ko Un - The People's Poet of Korea
Daljit Nagra looks abroad for inspiration and introduces Ko Un - People's Poet of Korea.
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Walking With Whitman
Daljit Nagra introduces the father of American Literature, Walt Whitman.
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Consorting with Angels
Daljit Nagra introduces Consorting with Angels, featuring model and poet, Anne Sexton.
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Lost Voices - Rosemary Tonks
Daljit Nagra introduces Lost Voices featuring Rosemary Tonks.
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Lost Voices - Dom Moraes
Daljit Nagra introduces Lost Voices featuring Indian poet Dom Moraes.
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Lost Voices - WH Davies
Daljit Nagra introduces Lost Voices featuring the travelling, nature-loving poet WH Davies
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With Great Pleasure - Les Murray
Les Murray's pick of prose and poetry read by Sean Barrett and Sally Cookson.
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With Great Pleasure - Sean O'Brien
Sean O'Brien's pick of prose and poetry read by Julia Watson and Deka Walmsley.
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With Great Pleasure - Jo Shapcott
Poet Jo Shapcott's favourite literature read by Christian Rodska and Mark Meadows.
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With Great Pleasure - Don Paterson
Daljit Nagra introduces 'With Great Pleasure' from the Summer 2006 Ledbury Poetry Festival
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The Echo Chamber - Solsticial
Daljit Nagra introduces The Echo Chamber with Alice Oswald's poem 'Tithonus'.
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The Echo Chamber - The Poet, the Poem, and the Savannah
Glyn Maxwell, poet and author of On Poetry, discusses his work. Presented by Paul Farley.
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The Echo Chamber - Clive James
Clive James reads his staring-death-in-the-face poems with Paul Farley.
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The Echo Chamber - Middle Age
Are the middle years tough for poets? With poems from Muldoon and Kathleen Jamie.
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The Echo Chamber - The Knowledge
Daljit Nagra introduces The Echo Chamber in which Paul Farley does the Knowledge.
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Poetry Please: The Eve of St Agnes
Daljit Nagra introduces Lindsay Duncan reading Keats's erotic and magical poem.
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Poetry Please: The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Daljit Nagra introduces an edition featuring Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
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Poetry Please: Altered States
Daljit Nagra introduces an edition featuring poetry to take you into altered states.
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Poetry Please: Goblin Market
An edition featuring works by Christina Rossetti, including Goblin Market.
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Poetry of History - Di Great Insohreckshan
Linton Kwesi Johnson's poem explains Brixton's cultural and political upheaval of 1981.
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Adventures in Poetry - Kubla Khan
Peggy Reynolds explores the appeal of one of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's greatest poems.
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Derek Walcott - A Fortunate Traveller
Nobel Laureate poet Derek Walcott talks about his life and work.
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Adventures in Poetry - Adlestrop
Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting appeal of this 1915 poem.
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The Echo Chamber: Jen Hadfield on Shetland
Paul Farley meets poet Jen Hadfield in Shetland.
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Poetry of History: The Battle of Maldon
A look at historical events through the poems they inspired. Jonathan Bate starts in Essex
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Poetry Please - Poets Laureate
Daljit Nagra chooses memorable programmes from the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's poetry archive.
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Ask Me: The Poetry of William Stafford
William Stafford wrote a poem every day. Katrina Porteous explores his life and his work.
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Oh What a Lively War
Martin Sorrell explores the work of French First World War poet Guillaume Apollinaire.
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Coward, the Poet
Friends and fans discuss a selection of Noel Coward's poems.