Ian McMillan with poems to warm your cockles and put fire in your belly - with guests John Agard, Michael Symmons Roberts, and Edith Hall.Fiery sexual attraction, and the destructive fires that influence our stories - Professor Edith Hall shares elemental insights from Homer, a m ...Show more
The Verb - where the poetry kettle is always on
Are you ready for a poetry brew? Ian McMillan is and he's joined by:Graeme Richardson, Anglican priest and the Sunday Times poetry critic, with his debut poetry collection, Dirt Rich; Dr Julie Blake, cofounder and director of Poetry By Heart - the schools and colleges poetry reci ...Show more
This week, Miranda France contemplates the final novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; and Nicola Shulman on what women write in their diaries.'Until August', by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, translated by Anne McLean'Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries', by Sarah GristwoodProduced by ...Show more
All of our lives have changed. In this unprecedented time, we wanted to make something to reflect this moment. So today, our Kerning Cultures quarantine special: stories of staying at home, lockdowns from history, creative ways of escaping boredom... and for everybody's sanity, a ...Show more
This week, AE Stallings, the new Oxford professor of poetry, on the lives of poets; and Ann Kennedy Smith considers the different faces of Cornwall.'Sleeping on islands: A life in poetry', by Andrew Motion'The American poet laureate: A history of US poetry and the state', by Amy ...Show more