Poems from the Pennines
Poet Daljit Nagra chooses Poems From The Pennines presented by Simon Armitage. From 2012.
Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's radio poetry archive with 'Poems From The Pennines'.
Poet Simon Armitage walks the route of his 'Stanza Stones' - a series of commissioned poems carved into six stones along the Watershed of the Pennine moorland from Marsden to Ilkley in West Yorkshire. The poems take the theme of water in six different states - rain, mist, snow, puddle, dew, and beck and look at our relationship with water and our moorland. The area is close to Simon Armitage's heart as he grew up in Marsden and still lives locally.
Simon talks about the creative process of writing the poetry and the challenge of writing poems that may be read on the moors for a thousand years to come. He also reveals the history of people carving words on the rocks on the moors and looks at the nature of our relationship with water.
Producer: Laura Parfitt
Made for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 by White Pebble Media and first broadcast in 2012.
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